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How to scientifically classify food nutrition?
According to its main components, food can be divided into three categories: protein, carbohydrate (starch, sugar) and fat, and these three types of nutrition are also essential for human body.

In the 1920s, American health expert, physicist and doctor Sheldon applied Pavlov's food digestion theory to diet practice, and successfully treated about 65,438+10,000 seriously ill patients with scientific diet methods, with outstanding results.

Below, mainly according to Sheldon's basic point of view, the specific classification of food and the rules of the single food law are summarized:

Protein food are:

Soybean, most nuts, mushrooms, eggplant; Milk, eggs, meat, fish and shrimp.

Carbohydrate foods are:

Starch: pasta, rice, dried peas, potatoes, chestnuts, pumpkins and zucchini; Sugar: white sugar, granulated sugar, brown sugar, milk sugar, jam, syrup and honey.

High-fat foods are:

Various edible vegetable oils and animal oils; Fat, butter, sour cream; Most nuts (including protein and fat).

There are three kinds of fruit food:

Sour fruits: orange, grapefruit, pomegranate, lemon, sour grapes, sour plums, sour apples and tomatoes.

Semi-sour fruits: fresh figs, sweet cherries, sweet apples and pears, peaches, apricots, blackcurrants and strawberries.

Sweet fruit: dry and sweet varieties of jujube, fig, raisin, grape, persimmon, black plum, apple and pear.

Green vegetables are a single category.