Food combination - food combination

Japanese: 食合せ - くいあわせ

It is a poisoning thought to occur when two or more specific foods are eaten at the same time, and is mostly just a superstition. There have been various stories about it since the Nara and Heian periods, but especially in the Muromachi period, it was written about in authoritative books and frightened people. The Shukaisho lists over 60 types, such as soba and wild boar, mochi and cold water, sake and crab, and it is also mentioned in Kaibara Ekiken's Yojokun. None of these have any scientific basis, and it is thought that they were said to warn people to be careful because some foods contain a lot of oil, some have hard muscle tissue that is prone to indigestion, and some lose their freshness easily.

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Japanese:

2種以上の特定の食品を同時に食したときに起すと考えられている中毒で，多くは迷信である。古くは奈良・平安時代からいろいろと言い伝えられてきたが，特に室町時代になってからは権威ある書物にも書かれ，人々を脅かした。『拾芥抄』には，そばといのしし，餅と冷水，酒とかになど 60種余もあげてあり，また貝原益軒の『養生訓』にも記載されている。いずれも科学的な根拠はなく，実際には食物のなかには含油量の多いもの，筋肉の組織が硬く消化不良を起しやすいもの，鮮度が低下しやすいものなどがあるため，要注意といった意味でいわれてきたものと思われる。

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