Sense Of Taste Chart For Your Health
This is of course the new year period, and many people make New Year’s resolutions around this time, usually revolving around losing weight and getting fitter.
In the previous post I talked a bit about Ayurveda’s 6 essential tastes of life, and how they can help you improve your health in everyday life, and today I just want to elaborate a little bit on that with a helpful chart of some specific healthy foods that you should be looking to incorporate into your everyday meals.
It’s important that you don’t make choosing what to eat hard work. Don’t worry if you get to the end of the day and realise you’ve missed out on one or more of the foods in a particular sense of taste – it will be a long-term lifestyle change that will balance out over time.
You’ll feel so much better when you incorporate food from each sense of taste that you’ll actually find it easy and fun to adjust your diet to include them!
Sense Of Taste Foods – Sweet
- Milk
- Butter
- Cream
- Wheat
- Ghee (clarified butter)
- Rice
- Maple Syrup
- Sesame Oil
- Apple Juice
- Coconut Milk
- Honey
- Raw Sugar
- Fresh Fruit
- Rolled Oats
- Raisins
- Cranberries
- Soy Milk
- Vanilla Extract
Sense Of Taste – Salty
- Salt
- Pickles
- Salty Pretzels
- Tamari Soy Sauce
- Seaweed
Sense Of Taste – Pungent (Hot And Spicy)
- Chilli Pepper
- Ginger
- Black Pepper
- Clove
- Mustard
- Radish
- Daikon
- Onions
- Thyme
- Oregano
- Salsa
- Asparagus
- Tomatoes
- Fresh Chillies
- Garlic
- Cinnamon
- Basil
- Rosemary
Sense Of Taste – Sour
- Limes
- Lemon
- Citrus Fruit
- Yoghurt
- Mango Powder
- Many Immature Fruits
- Tamarind
- Plums
- Blueberries
- Raspberries
Sense Of Taste – Bitter
- Green Vegetables
- Kale
- Broccoli
- Spinach
- Lettuce
- Turmeric
- Fenugreek
- Endive
- Chicory
Sense Of Taste – Astringent (Dry And Light)
- Apples
- Apricots
- Beans
- Berries
- Cabbage
- Cauliflower
- Cherries
- Coriander
- Figs (dry)
- Grapes
- Green Tea
- Lentils
- Peaches
- Persimmons
- Pomegranates
- Prunes
- Strawberries
Your Sense Of Taste Needs Variety Every Day
There are foods that taste delicious to us, and those that don’t. There is enough variety from this sense of taste chart for your health to provide options in a daily eating program that will not only taste good, but also be healthy for you.
You will always feel satisfied and you will start to crave healthy food that makes you feel good when you eat it… and that’s what you really want, isn’t it?!
In the next post, I’m going to share the 3rd golden rule of healthy eating – how to choose food that nourishes your body and emotions…
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