Diet taboo food list

99% of the "food taboos and food restraint tables" uploaded on the Internet are IQ taxes. Only a few taboos for special groups and special eating conditions are true. There is no "universal food taboo table" that is applicable to everyone.

You must have seen this kind of content in family groups, right? The tables with yellow letters on a red background are densely packed with things like "crab + persimmon = death by poisoning", "spinach + tofu = kidney stones", "vitamin C + seafood = eating arsenic". The elders are diligent in checking the tables before sitting down at the table for every family dinner, for fear of stepping on a thunderbolt. When I was doing popular science research with teachers from the Institute of Nutrition two years ago, I deliberately looked through relevant experimental records. As early as 2018, the Chinese Nutrition Society conducted a human food trial on 16 groups of "compatible foods" that were the most widely circulated on the Internet. Volunteers were given these combinations for a week, and there were very few cases of diarrhea. Those cases of mutual conflict that were reported in the early years were found to be either that the food was contaminated by pathogenic bacteria, or that the person involved was allergic to a certain type of food, or that he or she had gastrointestinal problems from eating too much at one time, which had nothing to do with "mutual conflict".

I personally tested it last fall. I just carried two kilograms of hairy crabs from the market, and then bought a bag of crispy and sweet persimmons that had just been released. I ate two of each. My mother took a three-minute video of me and said she wanted to keep the evidence of my admission to the hospital. As a result, I got up on time the next day and squeezed the subway to go to work. She was dubious and deleted the photo album of Xiang Ke Table that she had saved for several years.

Of course, this does not mean that all the taboos on pairing are groundless. The "food opposites" mentioned in Chinese medicine is actually another logic. It does not mean that eating two kinds of food together will produce toxins, but that the superposition of foods with large deviations in nature and taste may aggravate the body's bias. For example, if a person has a weak spleen and stomach and gets diarrhea when eating something cold, if he has just finished eating frozen pears that are so cold that his teeth are sore, and then turns around and downs a bowl of hot spicy butter soup, his stomach and intestines will be stimulated and throbbing with pain. Nowadays, many clinical nutritionists support this statement, that is, diet matching should be based on personal physique and cannot be generalized.

When I was doing a free clinic in the community, I met an aunt who said that the last time she ate Pippi shrimp and two oranges, she had vomiting and diarrhea and went to the emergency room. It must have been a reaction between vitamin C and seafood. We looked through her medical records and found out that the Pippi shrimps she bought had been left at a roadside stall all afternoon and were found to be infected with Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Not to mention eating them with oranges, she would have to go to the hospital even if they were eaten with white rice.

If there are indeed "matching taboos" that need to be paid attention to, they are actually aimed at specific groups of people and are not general mutual restraints at all. For example, patients taking anticoagulants such as warfarin should avoid foods with high vitamin K content such as spinach and broccoli. The problem is not that the food itself is problematic, but that vitamin K will affect the effect of anticoagulants. ； People who are lactose intolerant should not drink iced milk and then eat iced watermelon. They already lack lactase, and if they add cold stimulation to their intestines and stomach, it will be weird if they don’t have diarrhea. ； Gout patients should not eat seafood and drink beer at the same time. Both of them are high in purine. When combined, uric acid will rise. It is not that the two are incompatible, but simply because they eat the wrong amount.

The most outrageous correlation chart I have ever seen actually includes "eggs and soy milk", saying that trypsin inhibitors affect absorption. Come on, as long as soy milk is boiled, it will be inactive long ago. I have had soy milk with tea eggs for breakfast since I was a child, and I have never been malnourished.

If you really want to make a list of dietary taboos for yourself, why not just remember three sentences: washing and cooking the ingredients is more important than any combination, eating seven to eight percent full is more important than any taboos, and whether you feel comfortable after eating it yourself is more accurate than any list made by strangers on the Internet. If you really feel uncomfortable after eating something, first remember whether the ingredients are fresh, whether you have eaten too much, and whether you are allergic to anything. Don't leave everything to "food conflicts".