The Principles of Food Combining

What Is A Fruit?

Apples, Pears, Bananas, Grapes, etc Eggplant, Baby Marrow, Squash, etc

Known, accepted fruits Not usually considered as fruits

Culinary Meaning

A lot of foods that are (botanically speaking) fruits, but which are savoury rather than sweet, are typically considered vegetables by chefs.

Botanical Meaning

A fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from the ovary of a flowering plant

What is a vegetable?

Carrots, Spinach, Potatoes, etc Butternut, Baby Marrow, Tomato, etc

Known, acceptable veg Considered as veg but are fruits

Culinary Meaning

Vegetables include edible stems and stalks, roots, tubers, bulbs, leaves, flowers, some fruits, pulses, fungi, algae and sweet corn and hominy (cereal grains used as vegetables).

Botanical Meaning

Vegetables are plant parts, such as roots, leaves and stems

E.G. White Letter 312, 1908 You need to keep in your house the very best kind of help for the work of preparing your food. "I took notice of your diet. You eat too great a variety at one meal. Fruit and vegetables taken at one meal produce acidity of the stomach; then impurity of the blood results, and the mind is not clear because the digestion is imperfect." You should understand that every organ of the body is to be treated with respect. In the matter of diet, you must reason from cause to effect. {Counsels on Diet & Foods}

What is a protein?

What is a Carbohydrate?

What is a Fat?

What is Food Combining?

Why Is Food Combining Important?

The idea behind food combining is that different foods digest at different rates and require different digestive environments, thus foods need to be eaten in groups that compliment these factors.

Starch digestion• Starch is a complex carbohydrate. Each molecule consists of very many glucose

molecules joined together. The digestion of starch is a two-stage process:• it is first digested to form maltose (each maltose molecule consists of two glucose

molecules joined together)• the maltose is then digested to form glucose

Changing pH• The pH is at alkaline levels in the mouth and small intestine, but the pH in the

stomach is at acidic levels. The enzymes there work at different optimum pH levels. For example:

• salivary amylase works best just below pH 7 (Starch)• stomach protease works best at around pH 1.6 (Protein)• pancreatic lipase works best at around pH 8

Perfect Health = Perfect pH

It is therefore important to understand that it is possible for you to be in control of your health.

It is important to understand that disease begins with bad combining

You Are What You Eat!

E.G. WhiteAgain and again I have been shown that God is trying to lead us back,

step by step, to His original design,-- that man should subsist upon the natural products of the

earth. [C.T.B.H. 119] (1890) C.H. 450

E.G. WhiteIn order to know what are the best foods, we

must study God's original plan for man's diet. He who created man and who understands his

needs appointed Adam his food. "Behold," He said, "I have given you every herb yielding seed,. . . . and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food." Upon leaving Eden to gain his livelihood by tilling the

earth under the curse of sin, man received permission to eat also "the herb of the field."

(1905) M. H. 295, 296