You’re eating right, taking all the right supplements and exercising regularly, but you’re not seeing the results you want. Maybe you’ve nailed down exactly what you have to eat to live your healthiest lifestyle, but have you thought about the combinations of foods you eat? How about the ingredients you’re combining, beyond your basic macronutrients?
Well, you should because consuming certain food combinations can help increase nutrient bioavailability and pave metabolic pathways to better overall health. Bioavailability, in simple terms, refers to the body’s ability to absorb nutrients from food.
It may sound complicated, but that doesn’t mean the ingredients themselves have to be. In fact, you’re better off sticking with minimally processed ingredients.
“The closer the food is to the Earth in its purest form, the more benefits you will get from it,” says New York City–based registered dietician Supriya Lal. She suggests eating food for its entirety — as a source of a variety of different minerals, vitamins, fiber, protein, fats and carbohydrates — rather than for one particular nutrient.
However, this rule doesn’t apply if you have extreme deficiencies, in which case Lal advises consulting with a dietician or primary-care physician about your personal nutritional needs.
That being said, certain food combos can make your meal even more nutritious when eaten together. Here are some examples of ingredients that are even better when eaten together:
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