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Food combining (also known as trophology) is a term for a nutritional approach that advocates specific combinations of foods as central to good health and weight loss (such as not mixing carbohydrate-rich foods and protein-rich foods in the same meal).

Basic concepts of food combining are that some food digests very fast, for example some high water content fruits can digest in 15 minutes, where fat rich foods can take 3 days to digest. Eating slow digesting food then fast digesting food can cause improper bowel movements like watery stool. Another concept is that foods could be considered powerful chemicals in their own right, and very improper food combining would have unknown reactive effects that could cause side effects like a blood sugar spike, dizziness, nausea, shortness of breath, vomiting and indigestion. Many food combining charts are also concerned with acids and even categorize the acid level such as acidic, sub acid and alkaline. Another concept is that when humans were living in the wilds and not civilization, they would only find one food in the wild at a time and consume that one food and the simplification of it is ideal for the digestive system. Mixing many foods and ingredients is a modern invention of humans and as such its effects on our digestive health helped humans realize the need for the study of food combining. Another sub-concept of food combining which comes from the idea of eating one food at a time is called mono-meal or mono-mealing, in which the person eats one food for a meal for example a person may eat 8 bananas for meal.

One randomized controlled trial study of the efficacy of food-combining for weight loss has been reported in the peer-reviewed medical literature and found no evidence that it was any more effective than a "balanced" diet.

The Hay diet is one type of food combining diet.

References

1. Golay A, Allaz A, Ybarra J, Bianchi P, Saraiva S, Mensi N, Gomis R, de Tonnac N (2000). "Similar weight loss with low-energy food combining or balanced diets". Int. J. Obes. Relat. Metab. Disord. 24 (4): 492–496. doi:10.1038/sj.ijo.0801185. PMID 10805507.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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