Food Synergy - powerful food combinations for health

This blog explores the synergistic relations of foods. Did you know for example that the traditional way of eating tomatoes with olive oil is not only tasty but also the optimal way of extracting lycopen from the tomatoes? Or the traditional way of eating corn with chalk which allows you to extract niacin from corn? Tea with a slice of lemon, garlic and fish - the list goes on and on.

In school we're taught to think that 1 plus 1 is always 2. There are fields in life where this logic does not apply and food is one of them. We see it over and over again that foods are effective especially when you combine them.

In the past 50 years we've been taught to think of food as simply the sum of it's nutrients. Bread is no more than a bunch of carbs, fats and a little bit of fiber. This view is outdated - it is time to look at food from a synergistic perspective.

We know that people who eat whole foods are so much healthier than people who eat refined foods like white flour, white rice, white sugar - and even white salt. Modern, industrially produced food has lost a significant amount of its natural ingredients that your body is left craving for. It's no wonder we're all the time hungry when we eat industrial food as there is no nutrition in it!

It is when you remove a nutrient from its natural context that you expose yourself to unhealthy quantities of say carbohydrates. Yet, it's really hard to get too many carbs by eating 100% full corn bread as you will be stuffed after just one piece of it.

I hope this website will help you explore new ways of combining foods in tasty and healthy ways!

Photo by: CC - Peter Grima