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What are the do's and don'ts' of fruit combination?

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Due to the acidity and sugar concentration of different fruits, certain fruit combinations are easier to digest than others. Acid fruits combine well with sub-acid fruits. Sub-acid fruits combine well with sweet. However, acid fruits do not mix well with sweet fruits. Also, because of their particularly high water content, melons are the fastest to digest and therefore should be eaten alone.
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Acid: Clementines, cranberries, grapefruit, kiwis, lemons, limes, oranges, pineapples, pomegranates, strawberries, tangerines.
Subacid: apples, apricots, berries, cherries, grapes, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums.
Sweet: bananas, dates, dried fruit, fresh figs, grapes (Muscat or Thomson), mangoes, papayas.
Melons: canary, cantaloupe, casaba, Christmas, honeydew, musk, Persian, watermelon.

The interesting thing is if you add a carrier like yogurt, what doesn't seem to go together actually ends up as a great combination. An example: bananas go well with strawberries in a yogurt smoothie.

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