Bad Combination For Health: As soon as summer arrives, we have to control our food habits first. But, in this season, you can eat salad to your heart's content. This is not what we say, but health experts say so. Salad is best for both taste and health. A salad full of nutrients is a surefire formula to keep the body hydrated in summer. It keeps the digestive system healthy as well as removes the lack of blood in the body. People add many things to make a salad. Tomato and cucumber are mainly kept in it. But, do you know that consuming cucumber with tomato can prove to be very dangerous for health? Now the question is, what things should not be eaten in salad? What are the disadvantages of eating tomato and cucumber together? Richa Sharma, Senior Dietician and Head of Department, Kailash Deepak Hospital, Delhi, is telling about this-

Why is the combination of cucumber-tomato harmful?
According to the expert, eating tomato and cucumber together in a salad causes pain in the stomach. That is because both things are opposite to each other. Let us tell you that the digestion time of both tomato and cucumber is different. Where one food gets digested quickly and reaches the intestine, while the process of the other continues. Due to this, the process of fermentation starts in the body. This process can be harmful to the stomach as well as the whole body.
Tomato should not be eaten with cucumber.
According to experts, eating cucumber and tomato together can cause stomach related problems. That is, eating both of them together can slow down your digestion process. At the same time, eating both of them together disturbs the balance of acidic pH in the body. Due to which problems like gas, bloating, stomach ache, nausea, fatigue, indigestion can occur.

What else should not be eaten with cucumber?
Some people consume not only cucumber but also curd with tomato. According to dieticians, the combination of tomato and cucumber in raita is also not good. Apart from this, one should also avoid eating cucumber and milk products together. Doing this can cause great harm to health. These things slow down metabolism, which can cause stomach pain and bloating.
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