Eating certain foods together helps with nutrient absorption and add the fat already!

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"Locked up inside that salad is nearly every antioxidant you've ever heard of," Dr. John La Puma wrote in "Chef MD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine (Crown, $24.95).

If you use fat-free dressing, he wrote, "you're getting less than you could — unless you eat that salad with avocado, or with walnuts or roasted walnut oil, or extra-virgin olive oil or nearly any other good-for-you fat."

The reason, La Puma said, is that the oil makes several nutrients — the lutein in the green peppers, the capsanthin in the red peppers, the lycopene in the tomatoes, even the limonene in the lemon — more body ready for you. "Each of them is optimally absorbed with a little bit of fat," he wrote.

The best way to spot synergy on your plate — and to ensure a nutritious meal — is to make sure it has a minimum of three colors and contains healthful fat (avocado, olive oil or nuts), Bazilian said.

"Food has a way of working synergistically, whether or not it's an outright pairing, so you're not constantly drinking tea and eating spinach. Certain nutrients help each other out."