Food combining

These proposed specific combinations are promoted as central to good health as well as improved digestion and weight loss.

In recent years, the food combining diet was popularized in online spaces by social media influencer Kenzie Burke, who promoted and profited from the fad diet through the sale of her "21-Day Reset" program.

[3] The promotion of food combining is not based on facts, making claims that have no scientific backing and displaying some characteristics of pseudoscience.

[4] One randomized controlled trial of food combining was performed in 2000, and found no evidence that food combining was any more effective than a "balanced" diet in promoting weight loss.

[5] Besides this study, there is minimal legitimate scientific research on food combining as a diet, and subsequently no sufficient amount of legitimate scientific evidence for any of the diet's claims and any benefits it could potentially have for one's health.