We’ll tell you why you shouldn’t drink cognac with lemon, champagne with chocolate, and vodka with salted tomatoes.

On the eve of the New Year holidays, it is important to know which snacks are necessary on the table, and which ones are better to refuse, so as not to have health problems later. As it turned out, many popular treats are strictly prohibited – found out what you really shouldn’t eat with alcohol.

What not to eat with vodka

Lightly salted tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms, lard, lightly salted fish – these are the most popular treats for such an alcoholic drink as vodka. However, nutritionists and gastroenterologists say that such a snack can lead to serious problems.

For example, why you can’t snack on vodka with mushrooms is because morels or pickled mushrooms – dangerous product. If you snack on vodka, you risk getting allergies or nausea, so if you want mushrooms, it’s better to get by with porcini mushrooms, chanterelles or boletus mushrooms.

Few people know why not snacking on vodka and melon, especially pickled or canned – any fruit in combination with strong alcoholic drinks leads to flatulence, bloating and colic. This same point explains whether it is possible snack on vodka with an apple – absolutely not. You should only cut fruit for an appetizer if you are drinking white wine.

What not to eat with cognac

The most popular treats for cognac lovers are lemon and chocolate, however, both of these products were included in the prohibited list. Firstly, they interrupt the taste of cognac and prevent you from enjoying the drink. Very often, lemon is served with poor quality cognac so that a person does not feel the catch – this is the reason why cognac should not be enjoyed with lemon. Secondly, chocolate, cakes, candies and other sweets will begin to dissolve first in the stomach, because glucose is more important for the body. Alcohol will be left “for later”, the result is a sharp jump in insulin, rapid intoxication and a severe hangover. The body ends up being severely poisoned by toxins from alcohol, and all the sugar is converted into fat cells.

What not to eat with wine and champagne

Women most often drink exactly this type of alcohol – wine and champagne, especially on New Year’s Day. That’s why it’s important to remember what you shouldn’t eat it with – general recommendations apply to chocolate, sweets, ice cream. Doctors explain why you should not snack on champagne with chocolate – this is a strong blow to the pancreas; if you regularly practice such treats, you can “earn” pancreatitis.

Don’t drink wine and champagne sandwiches with caviar, tuna salads, blue cheeses. If you were cooking chicken in sweet and sour sauce or fried ribsthen drinking with such dishes should be more successful than these two drinks.

What not to eat with whiskey

The list of what you should not eat with alcohol from such a category as whiskey is practically no different from everything listed above. Prohibited sweets, baked goods, spicy foods, fried fatty meats, pickles and marinades, any dishes that contain vinegar dressing. At best, you will simply spoil the taste of the drink and not feel the full “bouquet”; at worst, you will feel terrible and have a terrible hangover.

We talked earlier about how to snack on whiskey and other alcohol.