Eating/not eating certain foods together

psykins

I have a friend who claims that eating certain foods together is rough on your digestive system (ex. because fruit moves through you quickly and meat does not, eating meat and then fruit will cause the fruit to rot in your stomach and lead to all sorts of issues). The most bizzare such claim is that you shouldn't eat different kinds of melons at the same time (like watermelon/canteloupe).

Can any highly knowledgable people provide links to scientific experiments showing evidence against these claims? I'd really love to post them to Facebook...

neanderthin

I have a friend who claims that eating certain foods together is rough on your digestive system (ex. because fruit moves through you quickly and meat does not, eating meat and then fruit will cause the fruit to rot in your stomach and lead to all sorts of issues). The most bizzare such claim is that you shouldn't eat different kinds of melons at the same time (like watermelon/canteloupe).

Can any highly knowledgable people provide links to scientific experiments showing evidence against these claims? I'd really love to post them to Facebook...

A meal is no longer a meal but a marathon. Pseudoscience. Just point them to science of the digestive process.

MinnieInMaine

Here's a snopes article about the fruit rot thing:

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/fruit.asp

The only thing I could find about melons basically folllowed that same line of thinking. In a way, I get the concept for this because for me, eating some high fiber foods like raw carrots or apples by themselves will basiclaly give me indigestion but if I eat them with something else, like peanut butter or a sandwich, I'm perfectly fine. So maybe people who have this same problem decided the food is rotting and that's why you get gas and indigestion? It's a little rediculous and extreme but well, people come up with all kinds of weird notions based on anecdotal evidence vs actual science.

psykins

Thanks, Minnie.

This person is also trying to tell me that calories "don't matter" but is practically a twig...so I really don't take anything she says about food seriously. Frustrating, though!

jayjay12345654321

Your friend sounds like she has major food hangups. Probably not the best person to take seriously on nutrition.