Many people like to eat beef stew with potatoes. The glutinous potatoes and the aroma of beef are so delicious.
Potatoes are good for the spleen and stomach, and beef is also good for the spleen and stomach. Stewing beef with potatoes is the icing on the cake. For nourishment in winter, just eat more potatoes and beef stew.
While I was eating a big meal, I suddenly saw a tweet saying that beef stew with potatoes can easily cause indigestion and should not be eaten like this. The consequences will be serious.
So, I clicked in to see why I had indigestion after eating potato and beef stew for decades?
Oh, so that’s what happened——
“During the digestion of potatoes and beef, they require different gastric acid concentrations.” Although I have not tested this statement, I think it does. That makes sense. There is no doubt that different types of food have different digestion methods and speeds.
Does this mean that eating potatoes and beef together will prolong the digestion time of food, leading to indigestion, gastrointestinal disorders, and damage to the spleen and stomach?
If this conclusion is true, then everyone is not immune to indigestion, gastrointestinal disorders, and damage to the spleen and stomach. Because we have to eat many kinds of food every day, especially nutrition advocates that everyone should eat at least 12 kinds of food every day and at least 25 kinds of food every week, and the bigger the difference in food types, the better, so as to achieve better results. The complementary effects of nutrients.
Look, if you eat this way, wouldn’t everyone have indigestion and gastrointestinal disorders?
In addition, nutritional advice for diabetics is not to let food stay in the stomach longer, digest and absorb slower, and release nutrients slower. According to this view, regardless of whether diabetics can control their blood sugar, they will end up with indigestion, gastrointestinal disorders, and damage to their spleen and stomach. In order to control blood sugar, the price is not small.
Indigestion is caused by the different gastric acid concentrations during digestion of the two foods. This cause-and-effect relationship is disordered.
In fact, many people actually suffered from indigestion, bloating and stomachache after eating potato and beef stew.
Because beef itself is not a very digestible food, beef is either roasted or stewed. Cut the beef into thin slices and grill until both sides are slightly charred. Burnt food is helpful for digestion, such as rice, but it should not be charred into charcoal. There is also a famous prescription "Jiao Sanxian" to deal with food accumulation in children. This is to stir-fry the three "immortals" of hawthorn, malt, and Shenqu until the outside is burnt black and the inside is golden, and then decocted and drunk. It has a very good effect on digestion and digestion. The three immortals who stir-fry the coke are therefore called the "Three Immortals of Jiao".
Simmering beef in water for a long time will break up its internal tissues, and some macromolecule nutrients will also be partially decomposed into small molecules. These changes are beneficial to the digestion and absorption of beef. At the same time, when stewing beef, it is best to add star anise, cinnamon, grass fruit, cardamom, angelica, tangerine peel, galangal, kaempferia and other spices. These spices have the functions of appetizing and refreshing the spleen, drying dampness and reducing phlegm, digesting and resolving stagnation. It is fragrant and can make beef digestible, making it less likely to produce moisture after eating beef.
Potatoes may seem easy to digest, but they are actually not a "good crop." Potatoes have a high starch content. When starch is fermented by bacteria in the intestines, it will produce a lot of gas. If you eat too many potatoes, the fermentation of intestinal bacteria will be strong, which will cause flatulence. In addition, potatoes are also rich in dietary fiber. Dietary fiber is the "ration" for intestinal beneficial bacteria, but they "eat" slowly. The dietary fiber that has not been "eaten" is piled up in the intestines and affects the intestines. The excretion of gas is reduced, and the gastrointestinal tract becomes more bloated.
But this is not a "patent" for potatoes. Various potatoes with relatively high starch content have similar characteristics, such as yams, sweet potatoes, cassava, taro, etc. If you eat too much or eat too fast , are prone to flatulence.
Therefore, whether potato and beef stew will cause indigestion, bloating and stomach pain mainly depends on how to make it and how to eat it.
Stew for a longer time. When stewing, add some star anise, cinnamon, cardamom and other spices to promote digestion. And don’t be greedy, half a potato and a few pieces of beef will be enough. Eating too much of anything will cause indigestion.
In addition to the "criticism" of beef stew with potatoes, many common food combinations have also been criticized as unreasonable. Do many people have a "Table of Food Prosperity and Destruction" at home? Some of them make sense, and some of them are just "playing hooligans."
Many people have been eating tofu mixed with green onions since childhood. Suddenly someone tells you that this way of eating is wrong and harmful to your health. Are you scared?
At first glance, it makes sense. But there is a saying you have to remember, "To talk about toxicity without considering the dosage is to be a hooligan"!
Theoretically, when scallions are mixed with tofu, some calcium oxalate will be formed. But actually, how much green onion would you add to tofu? How much oxalic acid does a few green onions contain? How much calcium oxalate is formed?
The oxalic acid content of shallots is 2mg/100g, and 100g of green onions only contains 2mg of oxalic acid. The content of onions is a little more, 30mg/100g, but this is also less than the oxalic acid content of many vegetables.
Based on 100g, cowpea contains 30mg of oxalic acid, 33mg of carrot, 41mg of cabbage, 60mg of Chinese cabbage, 85mg of sweet potato leaves, 104mg of okra, 162mg of leek, 691mg of water spinach...
Not only does the oxalic acid content of shallots not be high, but the amount of consumption is very small. Even if the shallots are mixed with tofu, it is only a few green onions. The oxalic acid is negligible, and the calcium oxalate formed can be completely metabolized by the body.
Carrots are nutritious, and white radish is also nutritious. Eat carrots with white radish, the color is beautiful, and the nutrition is even better. However, "Food Prosperity and Mutual Restraint Table" will tell you that carrots and white radish cannot be eaten together.
However, the fact is that this enzyme that can break down vitamin C is contained in almost all plants, including white radish itself.
Even without this vitamin C decomposing enzyme, vitamin C is a vitamin that is easily decomposed, such as heating, ultraviolet light, adding alkali... Even if the food is cut, vitamin C will come into contact with oxygen. It will also be damaged a lot.
Even if carrots are not eaten together with white radish, the vitamin C in white radish will still be lost. Adding carrots will not cause much loss. What's more, enzymes are resistant to heat. When heated to high temperatures, these enzymes are easily destroyed and lose their function.
According to traditional Chinese medicine, carrots and white radish can relieve qi in the middle and lower the qi, but carrots are warm in nature and white radish is cool in nature; carrots are tonic and white radish is diarrhea.
There is nothing wrong with eating carrots and white radish together. They have a good color and are good for the stomach.
Fruits are high in vitamins and seafood are high in protein. They are both nutritious and good foods. Eating some fruit after a meal can also help digestion.
However, someone will definitely tell you that eating fruits and seafood together will cause poisoning.
Again, "To talk about toxicity without considering the dose is to be a hooligan." Seafood contains very little pentavalent arsenic. Even if all of it is converted into trivalent arsenic, to reach a toxic dose, you would have to eat thousands of shrimps. That's all right, don't poison him to death, just hold him to death first.
To convert all the pentavalent arsenic in seafood into trivalent arsenic, a sufficient amount of vitamin C is required. To provide so much vitamin C, I am afraid I have to eat several baskets of fruits. Eating fruits and seafood together will really kill you, you will be exhausted!
Although eating fruits and seafood together will not cause poisoning, it is not recommended to eat too much fruits and seafood together, because many fruits contain tannic acid, fruit acid and other acids, and seafood is rich in protein. These acids will denature the protein and make it difficult to digest. Therefore, some people will feel bloated and painful or have diarrhea after eating seafood and fruits. This is not poisoning, but the denaturation of the protein will irritate the gastrointestinal tract. Just have diarrhea. .
It is recommended to eat fruit between meals, which will not affect the digestion of the meal and ensure that the nutrients in the fruit can be better absorbed.
There is often a big gap between theory and practice. To talk about toxicity without considering dosage is to be a hooligan. There are not many foods that are truly incompatible with each other, and very few can cause poisoning.
But food matching is really important. If the combination is reasonable, it can be the icing on the cake. If the combination is not good, it will be counterproductive. How to match it better depends on personal physique and seasonal factors.