Incompatible Food Chart
Food/Aahar
food is very important. All types of food whether solids, semi-solids or liquids in the form of water, milk, juices etc. are referred as Aahar in Ayurveda. Aahar is emphasized in Ayurveda because it is Aahar or food that we eat which plays an important role in maintaining the overall health and well being. The ultimate objective in the science of life is arogya or health. The whole process of digestion in ayurvedic terminology is Aahar Pachan.
All food articles possess their own Rasa (taste), Guna (characteristics), Virya (potency), and Vipaka (post digestion effect) and also Prabhava (impact). We should be very careful with the food we intake. Our diet should be a balanced diet with adequate quantity of calories and nutrients. The calorie and nutrient content varies according to age. For proper digestion or aahar pachan, it is necessary that the right food is consumed at the right time and there should be no intake of incompatible food. When two or more food items having different taste, energy and post digestion effect are taken together, the digestive system can become overloaded, resulting in the production of toxins. Incompatible foods can produce indigestion, putrefaction, fermentation, and gas formation and, if prolonged, can lead to toxemia, and diseases.
Let us check out the Incompatible Food Chart According to Ayurveda below
| Don’t Eat | With |
| Beans | Fruits, Cheese, Eggs, Fish, Milk, Meat, Curd |
| Eggs | Fruits especially melons, Beans, cheese, fish, milk, meat, curd. |
| Fruits | As a rule shouldn’t be taken along milk, Curd |
| Grains | Fruit, tapioca |
| Honey | With equal amount of Ghee by weight, boiled or cooked honey |
| Hot drinks | Mangoes, cheese, fish, meat, starch, curd |
| Lemon | Cucumber, milk, tomato, curd |
| Melon | Everything especially dairy products, eggs, fried food, grains, starch. Melons more than other fruits should be eaten alone or left alone. |
| Milk | Bananas, cherries, melons, sour fruits, bread containing yeast, fish, meat, curd |
| Nightshades e.g. potato, tomato | Melon, cucumber, dairy products |
| Radishes | Bananas, raisins, milk |
| Tapioca | Fruit specially banana and mango; beans, raisins, jaggery |
| Curd | Fruit cheese, hot drinks,eggs, fish,meat, milk, nightshades. Curd should never be cooked and taken in night, summer, rains and spring season. Curd should always be taken with sugar, soup of green beans, ghee or the Amalaki powder. |
