The health of the body is inseparable from daily health care. So, do you know which food combinations in daily life can cause physical discomfort? Can food pairing mistakes really cause physical discomfort? You might not have thought that eating radishes with fruits can induce or lead to thyroid tumors? Chives with beef can actually cause insomnia and constipation?
Eating hairy crabs with citrus can lead to muscle weakness, and eating river snails with pork can cause eyebrows to fall out. As for the common food incompatibility charts in the farmer's almanac, can food pairing mistakes really cause physical discomfort? You might not have thought that eating radishes with fruits can induce or lead to thyroid tumors? Chives with beef can actually cause insomnia and constipation?
Carrots appear in both Chinese and Western dishes, but Wang Mingyong, a raw food expert, says: After cruciferous vegetables like radishes enter the human body, they produce an anti-thyroid substance called thiocyanate through metabolic processes. At this time, if you consume fruits rich in plant pigments, such as oranges, pears, apples, and grapes, the flavonoids in these fruits are broken down by bacteria in the intestines into benzoic acid and ferulic acid. These substances can enhance the effect of thiocyanate in suppressing the thyroid, thereby inducing or causing thyroid tumors. The flavonoids in oranges help to produce substances that suppress the thyroid.
And chives with beef leading to insomnia and constipation? Luo Mingyu, a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, explains: Both chives and beef are considered very heaty and nourishing foods, and both have properties that can easily trigger reactions. When combined, they become a "heaty nourishment," which can easily lead to insomnia and constipation. If beef is cooked with strongly warming and pungent foods like chives, garlic, and ginger, it can easily generate excessive heat, leading to oral inflammation, swelling, pain, and canker sores. Eating chives with beef can easily cause gingivitis. Reason for incompatibility: Chives are pungent and warm in nature, with the effect of warming the middle and assisting yang. Beef is sweet and warm in nature, with the effect of replenishing qi and strengthening yang. Eating them together is like adding fuel to the fire, causing one's internal fire to flare up, leading to swollen and painful gums.
Many common food combinations, like seafood with beer, can actually easily induce gout? Wang Mingyong says: Seafood is a food that contains two components: purines and nucleotides. Beer, on the other hand, is rich in vitamin B1, an important catalyst that breaks down these two components. If you eat seafood while drinking beer, it promotes the combination of harmful substances in the body, increasing the uric acid content in the blood, which can form difficult-to-excrete urinary stones. If you have metabolic issues, eating seafood and drinking beer can cause a sharp rise in blood uric acid levels, inducing gout, and even leading to gouty nephropathy and gouty arthritis. Animal foods generally contain high levels of purines. Patients should avoid offal, bone marrow, seafood, fermented foods, and legumes.