Combining fruits and vegetables is it a No No or Ok?
Well this is a good question and I get it all the time, people say but aren’t you not supposed to combine fruit with vegetables. You read in the books that it is not good to combine these two.
The next question comes to mind is, what is a vegetable and what is a fruit? Could we be confusing fruits with vegetables.
When I thought about this for a while, I came up with a fruit grows on a tree or a vine.
Vegetables grow in the ground and are tubers like a carrot or parsnip.
But then you have the green leafy vegetable like cabbage and spinach as well as flower type like broccoli and artichokes etc.
So what is a fruit? Are tomatoes a fruit, I say yes.
Capsicums and chillies are they fruits, I also say yes.
What about cucumbers, zucchini and pumpkin they all grow on a vine are they fruits? Well maybe they are fruits not vegetables.
Broccoli and cauliflower are flowers and so are artichokes, they are a category all of there own, are they fruits or vegetables?
I think they may come under fruits. What do you think?
Spinach, Kale, lettuce are all green leaf vegetables and are another category, I think of these as foliage.
Then there is the root vegetables that are the tubers or rhizomes, like potatoes, kumura, swede, beetroot etc. These are definitely vegetables.
I put into my smoothies both raw fruits and vegetables, I don’t have trouble digesting them.
The foliage works very well with the fruit, even monkeys will wrap a piece of fruit in a leaf and eat it. If they do it by instinct then it must be Ok. Our digestive systems are the closet to primates.
Green smoothies contain fruits and green foliage and they are digested very easily to create an abundance of energy.
Apple carrot and ginger make a very nice juice and here we have 2 root vegetables and one fruit.
Avocado goes very well with broccoli and cauliflower as well as green leafy salad.
I think that putting fresh raw fruits and vegetables together is fine.
If you are having trouble digesting any combination then you should look at the gut integrity to determine whether this could be compromised, or that some intolerance’s may have been developed due to this compromise. Eating these foods raw will help to correct any gut issues.
Is it important as to whether it is fruit or a vegetable, I think not really, if it works together for flavor and digestion what is the problem.
My name is Raelle Connolly and I’m a Homeopath from Napier, New Zealand. I love to work with people and help them become the person that they want to be. I believe that a healthy body and mind is the key to happiness and that it’s a constant journey.