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Poor Combination

Avoid Eating Fruit until other foods have digested.

Good

Good

Do Not Combine Across This Line! Eat Separately.

Poor Combination

Poor Combination

Good

Good Combinations

Exceptions And Helpful Tips1. Lemons and limes may be combined with proteins, fats and oils, carbohydrates and starches, and non-starchy vegetables and greens.2. Botanically, any produce with a seed is considered a fruit. However, tomatoes, cucumbers, and nonsweet “vegetable” fruits are okay to combine with fats and oils, carbohydrates and starches, non-starchy vegetables and greens, acid fruits, and sub-acid fruits.3. Sweeteners, even if raw vegan, should be avoided, with the exception of stevia (an herbal sweetener). Although they may be alkalizing and cleansing, concentrated sugar feeds yeasts, molds, and fungi.4. Soaking nuts and seeds releases enzyme inhibitors, making the nuts and seeds more digestible, and is always recommended.5. Avocados tend to combine well and digest in 45 minutes to 2 hours depending on what they are eaten with.

Non-Starchy Vegetables and GreensDigestion Time: 2 - 3 Hours

Leafy Greens LettuceWatercressKaleKohlrabiParsleyChardCabbageCarrot GreensTurnip GreensMustard

GreensCollardsEndiveetc.

Sprouted Greens

AlfalfaClover Broccoli Brussels SproutsBuckwheatPea GreensSun�ower

CeleryBeetsTurnipsCarrotsRadishesBroccoli

Cauli�owerAsparagusSummer SquashesZucchiniSea VegetablesOnionsLeeksChivesGreen BeansArtichokesOkraSweet PeppersEggplantBlue-Green Algae

Carbohydrates and StarchesDigestion Time: 2 - 3 Hours

Sprouted Grains:Buckwheat Groats QuinoaMilletOatsWheatSpeltRye

Sprouted Legumes:LentilsGreen PeasAdzuki BeansMung BeansFenugreek

VERY STARCHY:CornWinter SquashesPumpkinJicama

SLIGHTLYSTARCHY:Jerusalem

ArtichokeBeansTurnipsParsnipsSweet Potatoes

Fats and OilsDigestion Time: 3 - 4 Hours

Oils:Olive, Sun�owerFlax, HempSa�owerCoconutSesameAvocado, etc.

Fats: Olives Avocado5

Fats and OilsNot Recommended:ButterCreamMargarine

ProteinsDigestion Time: 4 + Hours

Unsprouted:Peas Legumes

(Beans) Olives

Nuts4Seeds4Blue-Green

Algae

Dairy ProductsEggsFishFowl

MeatTofuSoy Products

Proteins Not Recommend:

Melons, Wheatgrass, andFresh Squeezed Juices

Digestion Time: 15 - 30 MinutesEat Alone

Melons:WatermelonHoneydewCantaloupeCasabaCrenshaw, etc.

WheatgrassFresh-Squeezed

Juices

Wait at least 30 minutes before

eating other foods.

Acid FruitsDigestion Time: 1½ - 2 Hours

Citrus1StrawberriesPineappleSour applesSour plums

CranberriesSour grapesCrab applePomegranates

Sub-Acid FruitsDigestion Time: 1 - 1½ Hours

Tomatoes2Cucumbers2ApplesPearsPeachesMangoPapayaApricots

CherimoyaFresh Figs (not dried)CherriesMost Berries:

BlueberriesBlackberriesRaspberries

Sweet Fruits and Sweeteners3Digestion Time: 30 - 45 Minutes

Dried Fruit:DatesRaisinsPrunesFigsApplesetc.

Grapes:ThompsonMuscat, etc.

BananasPearsPersimmonsSweet BerriesCherries

Sweeteners:3Agave NectarYacon SyrupRaw HoneyMolasses

Fresh and Alive! Raw Vegan Food Combining

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Fresh and Alive! Raw Vegan Food Combining

Food combining charts can make the concept of eating seem overly complicated, but actually the basic principles are quite easy, and when you understand them it’s not a chore to eat proper food combinations. Understand the basic principles �rst, and then refer to the chart if you have speci�c questions.

The Concept of Food Combining

Some foods digest faster than others, and if you eat a food that digests fast with a food that digests slowly, the mixture will ferment, create acidity in the body, and feed harmful parasites, yeasts, molds, fungi, bacteria, and viruses.

Basic Principles:

1. Eating certain food combinations will neutralize digestive juices, causing fermentation and putrefac- tion of food while in the body. This process allows for the growth of molds and fungi in the body.

2. Molds and fungi create mycotoxins and produce wastes that feed harmful bacteria and viruses, and foster an acidic environment in the body. An acidic internal environment creates a breeding ground for disease in many ways.

3. Nutrients all the way down to the cellular level tend to clump and create blockages in an acid environment, so cells tend to starve and toxins tend to build up, which accelerates degeneration and creates a cascade of unhealthy reactions in the body.

4. By eating a diet high in raw plant material and observing proper food combinations, acidosis, as it’s called, can be avoided and degeneration can be slowed or reversed.

For More Details

These are general guidelines based on observed practices that avoid food combinations that ferment in the gastrointestinal tract and create acidosis and “internal composting” (see the book, Rainbow Green, Live Food Cuisine, by Gabriel Cousens, MD for an explanation of this concept).

There may be some exceptions since not all possible combinations can be represented, but generally these guidelines work to avoid fermentation and acidosis. Some foods have components that fall into more than one category. Sprouting makes a food more easily digested. For example, unsprouted beans digest slower than sprouted, and sprouting converts some of their proteins into carbohydrates. Blended or �nely chopped foods digest faster than usual. Unripe fruit digests more slowly. Also, botanically, any produce with a seed inside is considered a fruit, but for food combining purposes some nonsweet fruits such as cucum-ber are classi�ed as vegetables.

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