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Good Question: Easy to Digest + Difficult to Digest

Here you will find "Easy to Digest" food items according Ayurveda, which can be fully digested and are very beneficial for detox, weight reduction and building up and maintaing the good gut bacterias. Same time we avoid "Difficult to Digest" food, especially in weak digestion.

Easy to digest or Difficult to Digest: Good Question

In HOLISTIC NUTRITION we are very conscious about our food, especially that it gets digested properly. Only “Easy to Digest” food items are healthy and nourishing, because they get completely digested. This way the body gets all the nutrients like proteins, carbohydrates and fats.

According to Ayurveda, “Easy to Digest” food includes warm, soft, boiled and pureed foods like vegetables, lentils, rice and ripe fruits. At the same time we avoid food items, which are “Difficult to Digest” like hard, raw, solid and sticky food like raw vegetables, unripe fruits, solid bread and chocolate, eggs, cheese and meat.

Easy to digest: different from Person to Person

Whether certain food items are easy to digest, depends on various individual factors. First and foremost, your current DIGESTION POWER determines which food items are easy or difficult to digest for you. You have your own digestive enzymes and juices, which determine your personal digestive spectrum, formed by the eating habits of your ancestors. For example, if your ancestors have eaten a lot of cereals, cereal products like bread and cakes are easier to digest for you, than for someone, who is from a fishers family, who consumed less bread in the past centuries.

Easy to digest: This depends on your personal Digestion Power

Your digestion capacity is also determined by your personal lifestyle and eating habits. During stressful times, your digestion power suffers. Food items, dishes and drinks, which are normally easy to digest, suddenly become difficult to digest because less digestive enzymes are produced. Your digestion power also suffers from wrong eating habits such as too acidic food. Alkaline and easily digestible food is recommended to strengthen your digestion.

Easy to digest: Boiled and Seasoned

Boiled and warm food, seasoned with digestive spices, are always easy to digest, especially when we mash it. By cooking part of the digestion is already done and adding herbs and spices induce the production of digestive enzymes and juices. Porridge, vegetable stew or apple compote is considered easy to digest. On the other hand, anything raw, solid, hard, heavy and sticky is difficult to digest. A good measure of digestibility are meals and drinks, which babies can consume, when they get weaned from mother’s milk.

Easy to digest or difficult to digest: An Overview

Here you will find a list of all foods items that fall into the categories easy or difficult to digest according to Holistic Health Systems like Ayurveda, Chinese or Arabic Medicine. In any case, anyone who suffers from indigestion or a serious disease should only eat food, which are easy to digest.

Easy to digest:

Light Food: Easy to digest food items

Good Question!
Easy or Difficult to Digest

Difficult to digest

Food items, dishes and drinks which are difficult to digest are those, where the food is difficult to break down byĀ digestive juices and enzymes.
These are usually complex proteins or carbohydrates. Anything can also be difficult to digest, when

In General Difficult to digest:

Difficult to digest food items: