Health Tips: Come, today we are telling you about these six tastes of food.
Health Tips: How many flavors are there in food? This question may surprise you... then you will say sweet, salty, and sour, and add bitter as well, on this we will say that these are only four. But, there are six types of tastes in food. Come, today we are telling you about these six tastes of food. Along with this, they are also telling why they should be eaten together. How they help in improving digestion and the stomach gets cleared easily in the morning.
Before this, know the golden Ayurvedic rule of digestion. Keep a gap of at least 3 hours between every two meals and do not eat anything frequently or in between. Consume herbal tea between two meals. For example, Black tea, Tulsi tea, Cumin-tea or Ajwain Leaves-tea, etc. Take your heaviest diet in the afternoon. That means your lunch should be heavier than your breakfast and dinner.
These are the six tastes of food
sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent, astringent
How to include all the tastes in food?
To include all the taste in the food, you should include papad prepared with salt, lemon, pickle, black pepper, jaggery, fried onions, asafoetida, etc. on your plate.
How is it beneficial?
When you include all these 6 tastes of food in small amounts on your plate, your body's mechanism will get full support of energy and juice. The elements that the body gets by eating these foods together, in the language of Ayurveda are called bio-diverse energetic taste i.e. bio-diverse energetic palette.
Before sleeping at night i.e. whenever you go to bed. Food should be eaten three hours before that. Due to this, digestion is done well. If three hours is not possible, then you must keep a gap of two hours. Otherwise, the stomach will start coming out and the problem of constipation will also increase. If you drink tea in between two meals, it not only gives you taste but also gives you energy. But, keep in mind that tea should not be more than a cup.
