FOOD COMBINING FOR EASIEST DIGESTION

One food at a meal is the most ideal for the easiest and best digestion.
Combination of several foods at a meal should be according to the tables below.

PROTEINS
Avocado* Lentils
Barley Meats
Cereals (whole grains) Milk
Dry Beans & Peas Milk products
Eggs Olive
Nuts: Almond, Butternut, Poultry
     Beechnut, Cashew, Pumpkin seed
     Brazil, Filbert, Hickory, Sesame seed
     Peanut, Pignolia,  Safflower seed
     Pistachio, English walnut, Sunflower seed
     Black walnut Soybean
Fish
COMMENTS
Good Combination with Vegetables
Poor Combination with Starches & Fruits

*Avocados are best combined with sub-acid fruits or with green vegetables.

STARCHES
Jerusalem artichoke Potato
Beans: Red, White, Rice
             Pinto, Lima, Mung Sweet potato
Bran Winter squash: Acorn, 
Cereals (whole grains)           Butternut, Hubbard
Chestnut Peas
Crackers Taro tubers
Corn Rye grain
Pastries Wheat grain
Peanuts Yams
COMMENTS
Good Combination with Vegetables
Poor Combination with Proteins & Fruits
VEGETABLES 
Asparagus Mushroom
Bamboo Shoots Mustard greens
Beet greens   Mustard spinach
Broccoli Radish
Brussel sprouts Sweet pepper
Cabbage Snap beans
Cauliflower Okra
Celery Onions
Chicory greens Parsley
Collards Parsnips
Cress Fresh peas
Cucumber Potatoes
Endive Sweet pepper
Escarole Rhubarb
Eggplant Spinach
Fennel Summer squash:  Yellow,
Green beans           Zucchini, etc.
Kale Swiss chard
Kohlrabi Tomato
Leafy greens Turnip
Lettuce Watercress
Mung bean sprouts
COMMENTS
Good Combination with Starches & Proteins
Poor Combination with Fruits
ACID FRUITS
Currant Orange
Grapefruit Pineapple
Kumquat Pomegranate
Lemon Sour plum
Lime Strawberry
Loganberry Tangarine
COMMENTS
Poor Combination with Proteins, Starches & Vegetables
Fair Combination with Sub-Acid Fruits
Poor combination with Sweet Fruits
SUB-ACID FRUITS
Apple Huckleberry
Apricot Jujube
Blackberry Mango
Cactus Fruit Nectarine
Cherry Papaya
Sweet cherry Peach
Elderberry Pear
Fresh fig Persimmon
Gooseberry Plum
Grapes Quince
Guava Raspberry
COMMENTS
Poor Combination with Proteins, Starches & Vegetables
Fair Combination with Acid & Sweet Fruits
SWEET FRUITS
Banana Persimmon
Fig Plantain
Date Prune
Dried fruit: apple, pear,
     peach, apricot,prune, fig
Raisin
 
COMMENTS
Poor Combination with Proteins, Starches & Vegetables
Fair Combination with Sub-Acid Fruits
Poor Combination with Acid Fruits
MELONS
Cantaloupe
Casaba
Christmas
Cranshaw
Banana
Honeydew
Nutmeg
Persian
Watermelon
Melons (all kinds) should be eaten alone.

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