The Truth About Incompatible Food Combinations

What Ayurveda Says and What Science Proves

Ayurveda is an ancient system of medicine that originated in India and is based on the principle of balancing the three doshas (vata, pitta, and kapha) in the body. According to Ayurveda, each person has a unique constitution and needs a specific diet and lifestyle to maintain health and harmony. Ayurveda also provides guidelines on what foods to eat and what foods to avoid, based on their qualities, effects, and compatibility.

One of the concepts that Ayurveda emphasizes is the idea of incompatible food combinations, or viruddhahara. This means that certain foods, when eaten together, can cause adverse reactions in the body, such as indigestion, toxicity, inflammation, and disease. Ayurveda identifies various types of incompatible food combinations, such as:

• Mixing different tastes, such as sweet and sour, or salty and bitter
• Mixing different qualities, such as heavy and light, or hot and cold
• Mixing different potencies, such as heating and cooling, or stimulating and sedating
• Mixing different categories, such as animal and plant, or grain and fruit
• Mixing different times, such as eating before the previous meal is digested, or eating at the…