Pitta-Pacifying Diet
Dietary guidelines that reduce Pitta dosha by avoiding heating spices and favoring cooling sweeteners and mild flavorings.
Pitta Food Guidelines
Pitta is balanced by cool, sweet, and bitter foods. Favored fruits are sweet apples, sweet berries, sweet cherries, dates, figs, melons, sweet oranges, pears, sweet pineapple, sweet plums, and raisins. Sour fruits like sour apples, bananas, sour berries, sour cherries, grapefruit, and sour oranges should be avoided.
Sweet and bitter vegetables are best, including asparagus, cooked beets, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumber, green beans, leafy greens, mushrooms, cooked onions, peas, bell peppers, summer squashes, sweet potato, white potato, sprouts, winter squashes, and cooked tomato. Avoid pungent vegetables such as raw beets, eggplant, mustard greens, raw onions, hot peppers, raw spinach, and tomatoes.
Favored grains include amaranth, barley, granola, cooked oats, basmati and white or wild rice, and wheat. Most legumes except miso and soy sauce are suitable. Cooling dairy like butter, ghee, cow's milk, and goat's milk is excellent. Cooling oils such as coconut, sunflower, ghee, and olive support Pitta balance.
Source: Textbook of Ayurveda: Fundamental Principles, Appendix: Reference Tables
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