Food Combinations

Best way to combine Foods:

1. Fruit should be eaten alone on an empty stomach, not with anything or immediately following anything.  This means eat fruits first thing in the morning.  Wait 30 minutes then eat the rest of your breakfast following the remainder of the combining principles.
       If you want to eat fruit any other time during the day, you must have been using the food combining principles and have not eaten within the last three hours.   Then eating the fruit, you must wait thirty minutes before you eat any other food.    The Diamond's believe that eating fruit in the morning until noon allows you to maximize your work potential because your body is not diverting "energy" to digest food.  This way you don't need that "coffee break" to get a "charge" from the caffeine so you can continue until noon!
   
2. Meat and starches are NOT to be eaten together.  You may have all the "meats and vegetables" you want.  You may also have all the "starches and vegetables" you want.  You just can't mix them all.
3. Meats are NOT to be mixed.  This means you can only eat one meat at a time.   You cannot have steak and lobster.  You either have to have just the steak or just the lobster!
4. Starches may be mixed....breads and pasta are allowed.
5. An exception is beans and rice, they may be eaten together.
6. "Eat melon alone, or leave it alone, or your stomach will moan."

Beans and legumes are considered starches, not proteins. Which means rice and beans together are still okay…whew!
Cheese and other dairy are considered proteins. #nogrilledcheese
Avocado is considered a starch, so try not to eat it with protein.
Butter and oils, lemon and lime, and almond milk are dubbed “neutral” by most standards…which means they’re okay with everything.

DIGESTION TIME OF VARIOUS FOODS

(approx. time spent in stomach before emptying):

Water

when stomach is empty, leaves immediately and goes into intestines,

Juices

Fruit vegetables, vegetable broth - 15 to 20 minutes.

Semi-liquid

(blended salad, vegetables or fruits) - 20 to 30 min.

Fruits

Watermelon - 20 min.digestion time.
Other melons - Canteloupe, Cranshaw, Honeydew etc. - 30 min.
Oranges, grapefruit, grapes - 30 min.
Apples, pears, peaches, cherries etc. - digest in 40 min.

Vegetables

Raw tossed salad vegetables - tomato, lettuces, cucumber, celery, red or green pepper, other succulent vegetables - 30 to 40 min. digestion. - 

Steamed or cooked vegetables

Leafy vegetables - escarole, spinach, kale, collards etc. - 40 min. - Zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, string beans, yellow squash, corn on cob - all 45 min. digestion time
Root vegetables - carrots, beets, parsnips, turnips etc. - 50 min. 

Semi-Concentrated Carbohydrates - Starches

Jerusalem artichokes & leafy, acorn & butternut squashes, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yam, chestnuts - all 60 min. digestion. 

Concentrated Carbohydrates - Grains

Brown rice, millet, buckwheat, cornmeal, oats (first 3 vegetables best) - 90 min. 

Legumes & Beans - (Concentrated Carbohydrate & Protein)

Lentils, limas, chick peas, peas, pigeon peas, kidney beans, etc. - 90 min. digestion time
soy beans -120 min. digestion time

Seeds & Nuts

Seeds - Sunflower, pumpkin, pepita, sesame - Digestive time approx. 2 hours.
Nuts - Almonds, filberts, peanuts (raw), cashews, brazil, walnuts, pecans etc. - 2 1/2 to 3 hours to digest. 

Dairy

Skim milk, cottage or low fat pot cheese or ricotta - approx. 90 min. digestion time
whole milk cottage cheese - 120 min. digestion
whole milk hard cheese - 4 to 5 hours digestion time 

Animal proteins

Egg yolk - 30 min. digestion time
Whole egg - 45 min.
Fish - cod, scrod, flounder, sole seafood - 30 min. digestion time
Fish - salmon, salmon trout, herring, (more fatty fish) - 45 min. to 60 digestion time
Chicken - 1½ to 2 hours digestion time (without skin)
Turkey - 2 to 2 ¼ hours digestion time (without skin)
Beef, lamb - 3 to 4 hours digestion time