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.
You may download a free copy of this chart from www.chart.freshandalive.com