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Why is salad off the Tayyibat diet?
Lettuce, cucumber and raw tomato are all his own rulings, and all no. So are spinach, cabbage, rocket, parsley, coriander and celery. His objection was not to vegetables. It was to raw ones.
Lettuce
The salad everyone calls healthy passes through you mostly undigested. Your gut does all the work and gets almost nothing back. Mostly water and rough fibre, and the fibre scratches the lining on its way through.
Cucumber
Over 95% water, which waters down the juices that digest your food. And it carries bitter natural chemicals of its own. Watermelon and cantaloupe are out for the same flood of water. So why are grapes in? Because the problem is the water, not the sugar.
Tomato
Raw tomato is a nightshade. Its seeds and skin carry natural chemicals called alkaloids, the plant's own insecticide. That is why bell peppers and raw tomato are out. Cooked, peeled and seeded into a sauce, a tomato loses most of it, which is why the system allows tomato only in that form. That reading follows from his rules, and the food page says so.
Spinach and the green smoothie
Spinach grabs the calcium in your food so your body cannot absorb it, and those crystals are what kidney stones are made of. Roughly eight out of ten kidney stones are calcium oxalate. The book's line: the green smoothie is the purest expression of modern nutrition advice, and it is a concentrated oxalate delivery system.
Onion, garlic and the sharp ones
The sting you feel when you bite raw garlic? Your gut lining feels it too. He named onion together with garlic, and the system's rice is cooked without either.
What vegetables are in, then?
Cooked ones. Carrot, cooked soft, never raw. Courgette, beetroot, mushrooms, pumpkin, sweet potato, potato. Tomato as a cooked sauce. The book says the word he used for vegetables, "garbage", goes beyond what the chemistry supports, and that cooking removes the objection.
At someone's house
Eat the meat and the rice, leave the salad, and say nothing. Nobody needs a lecture at their own table.
People also ask
Why is cucumber forbidden on the Tayyibat diet?
His own ruling. It is over 95% water, which waters down the juices that digest your food, and it carries bitter natural chemicals of its own.
Why are watermelon and melon forbidden?
His own rulings. Almost pure water: the flood hits the stomach and sets the bowels moving. Grapes are in because the problem is the water, not the sugar.
Why are onion and garlic forbidden?
His own rulings. The sting you feel biting raw garlic, your gut lining feels too. He named onion together with garlic, and the system's rice is cooked without either.
Are any vegetables allowed?
Yes, cooked: carrot cooked soft, courgette, beetroot, mushrooms, pumpkin, sweet potato, potato, and tomato as a peeled, seeded, cooked sauce.
Is lemon allowed?
No, following from his rule on citrus: your stomach already makes acid, and citrus adds more. Orange and mandarin are his own rulings, both no.
This article shares what Dr. Al-Awadi taught and what people who followed him report. It is information, not medical advice. Keep taking any medicine your doctor prescribed. How we source