Sequential eating is about eating foods in a certain sequence in order to improve digestion. The concept of sequential eating perfectly complements the guidelines of food combining. I broke food combining down to its three most essential rules that apply when eating a raw diet. These rules are:
I will present the concept of sequential eating, which perfectly complements food-combining rules, and can even "bypass" them in certain cases. Is there a preferred order to eat foods in order to encourage a better digestion? Yes, and you will see, once you've mastered the idea, your digestion will never be the same. This principle will also help those who have trouble consuming sufficient quantities of vegetables and fruit to be well nourished.
A food that digests quickly must watch for other foods that digest slowly to depart the stomach. This method can take several hours. During that time, many types of foods (especially fruit and starches) start fermenting, producing gas and even alcohol.
What has been discovered is that when foods are eaten one at a time, the entire meal will digest in different "layers". So, if five different types of food are eaten, one at any given time, there could be up to five different types of digestion going on, with enzymes adjusting to each particular type of food! However when the five types of food are eaten altogether, by either mixing everything in the plate or in the mouth, then the stomach is filled with the same mixture, and will take a lot longer to digest, with more difficulties too.
Many physiologists have confirmed the fact that foods digest in different "layers". In one case, a soldier was wounded, with a large opening on his stomach. Several doctors were present and could study the digestion "live", and they observed that his stomach digested foods in different layers.
The first concept to understand is that it is best to start eating watery foods first and finished with concentrated foods. The watery foods, for example fresh fruit, are digested rapidly, and then leave room for the more concentrated foods. If you eat in any other sequence, which would be to consume concentrated foods first and then watery foods for example fruit, the fruit is more prone to stay in the stomach for too long and ferment.
When you eat a piece of melon before eating anything, it digests very rapidly. Within minutes it already exits the stomach. With this understanding, it is then possible to eat something incompatible after this, for example avocado or nuts.
Eat your fruit first, and then have vegetables or more concentrated foods after. Not the other way around. Many people have a big salad or perhaps a sandwich and then have a piece of fruit. They then complain that fruit provides them gas. To avoid that, have the fruit first, and then other foods.
Acid fruits include citrus, pineapple, kiwis, tomatoes, etc. Eating those foods at the conclusion of a meal causes indigestion for a lot of. It's always better to eat them before other types of fruit.
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