A Food Combining Chart for Complete & Efficient Digestion

This "Common Sense" chart will show you how fresh, vital foods properly
combined will promote optimum digestion, energize & strengthen your body.

POOR

Non-Starchy Vegetables
EXCELLENT (high water content foods)
asparagus green beans
beet greens kale
Fruit Starchy
broccoli kohl-rabi Carbo-
Proteins brussels sprouts FRUIT IS THE HIGHEST lettuce hydrates
WATER-CONTENT FOOD
(concentrated cabbage mushrooms (concentrated
foods) celery SWEET MELON SUB ACID ACID parsley
foods)
* cheese chard bananas banana melon blackberries apple
spinach
dates cantaloupe grapefruit apricot
coconut chicory blueberries sprouts acorn squash
dried fruits casaba kumquat
* eggs collards grapes (muscat crenshaw lemon cherimoya
summer squash banana squash
& thompson) Christmas melon lime cherries
* fish cucumber fresh figs sweet pepper beans
persimmons honey dew orange
* fowl dandelion musk & persian pineapple grapes
tomatoes breads
watermelon plums (sour) huckleberries
* meat egg plant Sweet kiwi turnips cereals
pomegranate
* milk endive fruits should melons should raspberries mangoes
water cress grains
be eaten after be eaten alone sour apple nectarine
nuts (raw) escarole other fruits but can be papaya zucchini hubbard squash
strawberries
nut butters mixed with tangerines peach lentils
acid or sub- tangeloes pear
olives acid fruits plums
potatoes
seeds (sweet) pumpkin
seed butters DO NOT split peas
EAT FRUIT WITH ANY
* soy beans E EXCELLENT
OTHER FOOD
* yogurt X
C
E Mildly Starchy Vegetables
L GOOD artichokes --- carrots --- corn
GOOD
L beets --- peas
E D
N
cauliflower GOO
T
Fats & Oils Irritants
avocado corn
nut
--- use sparingly
butter olive garlic radishes
* butter sub sesame
* cream leeks shallots
POOR * lard
safflower
soy onions scallions

1. Protein & Carbohydrate foods should never be combined.

2. A leafy green salad can be eaten with any protein, carbohydrates, or fat.
3. Fats inhibit the digestion of protein. If you must have a fat with a protein, eat a mixed
vegetable salad. It will offset the inhibiting effect on digestion.
4. You should never drink liquids with or immediately following a meal.

* Listed for clarification but not recommended.

Food Combining is not mandatory. It may be useful for those with digestive problems.
Fruit alone may be too glycemic for those with carbohydrate sensitivity.
COMBINING FOODS FOR
MORE EFFICIENT DIGESTION

PROTEINS STARCHES

Fish: Eggs: Macadamia Wheat

Crab Egg White Peanut Amaranth
Lobster Egg Yolk Pecan / Pine Barley
Shrimp Fowl: Pistachio Brown Rice
Clam Chicken Poppy Seed White Rice
Oyster Goose/Duck Pumpkin Buckwheat
Scallop Turkey Sesame Millet
Anchovy Meats: Sunflower Oats
Bass Beef / Veal Walnut Pasta, Breads
Catfish Lamb / Mutton Soybeans Pastries
Codfish Pork / Bacon / Ham Milk: Lima Beans
Haddock Deer / Venison Casein No Triticale
Perch / Mackerel Rabbit Cow Dry Beans / Peas:
Red Snapper Coconut Goat Black-eyed Peas
Salmon / Lox Bean Curd: Tofu Yogurt Carob
Sardine Raw Nuts and Seeds: Sprouts Garbanzo
Shark Alfalfa Cheese: Kidney
Sole / Flounder / Halibut Almond Brick Navy / Ninja
Swordfish Anise Seed Cottage Pinto
Trout Brazil Hard / Parmesan Potatoes
Tuna Cashew Processed Yams, Corn
Turbot / Whitefish Chestnut Soft Hubbard Squash
Avocado Hazelnut / Filbert Romano Pumpkin, Acorn

VEGETABLES
Leafy Green Non-Starchy
Sprouts: Alfalfa Asparagus, Tomatoes
Mung, Lentil, Etc. Bamboo Shoots, Okra
Chicory Green Beans
Escarole Broccoli, Bell Peppers
Beet Tops Brussels Sprouts
Yes Celery Greens Cabbage, Turnips Yes
Swiss Chard Celery Stalk, Chili Pepper
Dandelion Greens Cucumber, Beet Sugar
Collard Greens Eggplant, Corn Sugar
Turnip Greens Spinach, Mushroom
Endive Zucchini Squash
Kale Crookneck Squash
All Lettuces Parsnips, Radish

Mildly Starchy
Artichokes Rutabaga
Beets Garlic Shallots
Yes Carrots Jicams Scallions Yes
Cauliflower Leeks Peas
Chives Onion Water Chestnuts

No No
Do not eat fruit with
No any other food No

Acid/Sub-Acid Fruit Sweet Fruit Melons

Lemon, Lime, Orange, Bananas Banana Melon
Tangerine, Grapefruit, Currants, Musk Melon
All other Citrus, Kiwi, Figs, Persimmons Cantaloupe
Plum, Pineapple, Mango, Dates Casaba
Papaya, All Berries, Nectarine, Raisins, Prunes Persian
Apples, Cherry, Grape, Pear, Dried Fruits Crenshaw
Apricot, Peach Grapes (Thompson, Muscat) Honeydew

Nuts are OK with Sweet fruits eaten Melons should

these fruits after other fruits is good be eaten alone
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