Vegetarian dishes are opposed to the dissociated diet
When working on the preparation of vegetarian dishes, it is even more necessary to take into account the defined theory of " food combinig ", that is to say the combination of food and food, for the preparation of the same. Those who follow a vegetarian diet, for example, will undoubtedly have taken some precautions to take the right amount of vitamin B12 and other fundamental nutrients.
It is therefore good to pay particular attention. According to food scientists who have thought of combined dishes and meals, first of all Graham in the 19th century, followed by his pupil Shelton, father of the famous "dissociated diet", in order to work better, enzymes need do it on one food at a time, without having to work with different types of enzymes to digest different foods; this type of diet, which essentially offers monothematic meals, for vegetarian nutritionists, and not only, is decidedly questionable.
What to associate in vegetarian dishes and meals
In vegetarian diets, thus going against the idea of Shelton's food associations, one can find combinations of vegetarian dishes based on cereals and fruit, legume and cereal proteins, cheeses and fruit, and this does not seem to be at all to the detriment of digestion, indeed. The vegetarian diet is a fantasy of colors and flavors that combines multiple foods in a single meal and enjoys introducing new ones, which may not even have been considered before: oat flakes, cereal or spelled or wholegrain pasta, sprouts, rice of all kinds, seitan, tofu, millet, various seeds and nuts of all sorts, spices and so on.
Unlike the dissociated diet, the vegetarian diet is designed to mix and vary, based on the consideration that the foods themselves are composed of different bases. If one thinks of the poorest populations, or those who could not afford meat, combinations were born that gave rise to complete vegetarian dishes, such as rice with lentils in India, couscous with chickpeas in Africa, rice, beans and cassava in South America . In short, there are foods for a combined vegetarian diet that those who are veg should always have on the table, that you can enjoy mixing with each other. And why not, in your free time, when you are away from the stove, leaf through a few pages of Vegetarian food, a book by Lepetit De la Bigne and Amante, to better understand combinations, enhancement of flavor and exaltation of nutritive principles.
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