Eat these 3 fruits with your porridge and absolutely avoid these! Fruit Combing
Fruit Combining - Which fruit should be eaten alone?
Have you eaten breakfast that included melons or other fruit as well as eggs, bread and cereal, and felt that you wanted to go back to sleep after? Maybe you felt bloaded or digestive discomfort? The art of combing food, and especially fruit combining is very important.
Though there are some people that argue we should eat only vegetables and no fruit, most people will agree that eating some fruit is wonderful and healthy.
In general eating fruit on its own is the way to go. The reason is that fruit digests quicker than most other food. So if you eat it with slow digesting food, the fruit will begin to ferment as it sits in the belly, waiting to pass down to your intestines. For example, a melon, mostly made of water is very quick to digest. Thus, if you eat melons in your salad or as desert, it will have to sit on top of the previous eaten foods, and if those foods include slow digesting foods such as some grains, and most animal products, then they will start to ferment and may cause discomfort.
Food Combining
As for food combining, Patrick Holford mentions in his book Optimum Nutrition Bible, in reference to eating fruit alone: (that) "The only exception to this advice is combining fruits that do not readily ferment, like bananas apples or coconut, with complex carbohydrate-rich foods such as oats or millet" (page 170). So, for those that want to have a more "substantial" breakfast, add bananas to your oats or porridge. This will also slow down the quick release of the sugars from the bananas.
So how to start the day?
I like to start my day with a glass of warm water (Usually lemon juice and MSM). This is a quick detox and encourages bowl movement. It also just feels good. After I am completely awake (yoga, shower…) I cut an orange and enjoy its juiciness. While eating the orange (or kiwi or grapefruit) I start preparing my oatmeal (Recipe). This takes about 20 minutes, and I feel that the orange has had time to slip away before the oats have entered my system.
This breakfast makes me smile all day and gives me great long-lasting energy as well as a morning boost.