Eat for balance

Sweet, sour, Salty, bitter, spicy and astringent

In ayurveda, foods are classified in six flavors: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent and astringent. Healers of ayurveda recommends that it includes all these six tastes in every main meal you eat.Each flavour has a capacity of balance, and among them some of each minimizes cravings and balances the appetite and digestion. general American diet tend to have too much of sweet, sour and salty and not enough taste bitter, spicy and astringent.

A frutas-especias chutney or a mixture of spices can provide a bit of each of the six tastes if you're rushed, but is ideal to choose food from each category to a complete nutrition and balanced. only in the category of fresh vegetables and herbs, for example, might choose bulb fennel or carrots for the sweet taste of fresh lemons to sour, Arugula or chicory for bitter daikon, radish or white ginger root to acre and broccoli cabbage or coriander for astringent.

The Rasayana Amalaki made of Amla, fruit offers five of the six flavors of ayurveda - all except salt.

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