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Agave Nectar
Agave Nectar has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Agave, the main ingredient in Tequila, has resurfaced as a health fad in recent years. Sticky and delicious agave nectar, produced from the agave plant, has been touted as a healthier sweetener because it has a slightly lower glycemic index than sugar....
Almond Butter
Almond Butter has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 3
Strength & Energy Building TonicLong before the agricultural revolution, humans feasted off nuts. This ancestral food is still one of the best ways to strengthen your body. Warm and creamy almonds contain more protein per serving...
Almond Milk
Almond Milk has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 4 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
Almond milk is a wonderful soothing drink that builds strength, immunity, and grounded energy. Its cool, heavy sweetness creates a sensation of stability and calm in the body, while offering easily accessible energy. For those suffering from lactose...
Almonds
Almonds has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 3
As the most widely grown tree nut in the world, these crunchy little nuggets are highly revered for building strength and intelligence across many ancient cultures. Originally native to the levant and in Northern Africa as far west as Morocco, almonds...
Apple (cooked)
Apple (cooked) has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
In Norse mythology, apples are said to provide eternal youthfulness. Apples appear in many religious traditions, including the bible, often as a forbidden fruit. Apples originated in Western Asia, where its wild ancestor still grows today. There are...
Avocado
Avocado has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 5 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 5
The avocado fruit grows on trees, but does not ripen until after it has been picked. It has a pear shape, and a rough, dark green to black skin with tiny bumps, which earned it the name "alligator pear". Unlike other fruits, avocado isn't sweet at all,...
Banana
Banana has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Replenish Electrolytes and RehydrateYou have spent a long hot afternoon tending your garden or chasing the kids and you're feeling parched. But sometimes, no matter how much water you drink, your body still feels thirsty. Simple...
Barley Malt
Barley Malt has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Half as sweet as sugar, with a distinct 'malty' taste. Dark brown, thick and sticky. Produced from sprouted barley. When seeds sprout, some of the carbohydrates get converted to simple sugars.
Basmati Rice
Basmati Rice has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 4 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
Rice builds ojas. Ojas is said to have the smell of burnt rice. Of rices, Basmati is the most sattvic and aromatic. Rice is nourishing and easy to digest giving more 'bang for the buck'. Rice offers more calories with less effort from digestive...
Blueberry
Blueberry has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Pop a few blueberries in your mouth and you'll notice reduced agitation, a relaxing sensation in the eyes, and cool feeling in your skin. These visceral signs are your personal cue indicating blueberries' beneficial effect on your liver, and their...
Bottle Gourd
Bottle Gourd has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 5 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
Bottle gourds feel like a cross between a cucumber and pear. They are common in Asia, but new to the United States. Bottle gourd is one of the earliest cultivated plants in the world, grown for its usefulness as a water carrying device when dried and...
Brown Rice Syrup
Brown Rice Syrup has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Brown rice syrup is a sweetener derived fby cooking rice with enzymes (usually cultured from dried barley sprouts). It is only twenty percent as sweet as regular sugar.
Brown Sugar
Brown Sugar has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
When Brown Sugar is called for in a recipe, you know that the result will be not only sweet, but rich in flavors and rustic. Brown sugar's homey-ness conjures images of Grandma's kitchen, breakfast pastries on winter mornings, rich and sweet. This is...
Buffalo Milk
Buffalo Milk has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 5 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
Difficult to digest, heavy and cold. [Ashtanga Hrdayam Su 5:23]
Butter (unsalted)
Butter (unsalted) has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Butter increases cholesterol, which is Kapha in nature. Eat organic butter only because the toxins are concentrated as the milk is concentrated. Ayurveda recommends ghee over butter because it is lighter for digestion. Every get thirsty after eating...
Butternut Squash
Butternut Squash has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 4 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
Winter squashes, including butternut, are eaten in the autumn after they have absorbed the sun's energy over the summer. This stored energy gives squashes a warm ojas building heartiness that can comfort you through colder weather. Where most tonic...
Cacao Butter
Cacao Butter has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Has a slight aroma of chocolate.
Cantaloupe / Melons
Cantaloupe / Melons has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 4 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
Carrot
Carrot has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 3
Ancestors of the wild carrot came from Iran and Afghanistan, the center of genetic diversity for carrot. Carrots were bred from a species of wild carrot, called Queen Anne's Lace. Originally they were grown for their aromatic leaves and seeds. Since...
Chia Seeds
Chia Seeds has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 5 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
The word chia is a native american word meaning 'oily'. Chia seeds were an important food crop in central America. Chia seeds are one of the few seeds of the mint family consumed as a food. It is closely related to culinary sage.
Chicken
Chicken has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 5 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
The dark meat of chicken is oily and has a rich fat content, making it a grounding, nourishing meat for Vata and Pitta. Chicken is an excellent choice to balance conditions of dryness and debility by giving the body strong protein with a heavy dose...
Chicken Fat (rendered)
Chicken Fat (rendered) has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 4 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
Muscle fats ad juices are used for debilitated and convalescing patients in ayurveda. They are harder to digest than vegetable oils, heavier, and produce faster oleation in the body. Useful for dry Vata types.
Chicken Liver
Chicken Liver has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 3
Pitta has liquid element. But when Pitta symptoms appear with dryness, Vata is to blame. Deficient liver or depletion of ojas leads to dryness and inflammation. Use chicken liver to pacify Vata in the liver, moistening it, building rasa and rakta...
Coconut Butter
Coconut Butter has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Fronds of a coconut palm sway in a tropical breeze,...
Coconut Cream
Coconut Cream has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Fronds of a coconut palm sway in a tropical breeze,...
Coconut Flakes
Coconut Flakes has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Fronds of a coconut palm sway in a tropical breeze,...
Coconut Milk
Coconut Milk has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Fronds of a coconut palm sway in a tropical breeze,...
Coconut Oil
Coconut Oil has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Coconut Water
Coconut Water has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 5 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 6
Replenish ElectrolytesAt any corner market in sweltering India, Thailand or Bali, you can drink fresh coconut water out of the nut with a straw, and dig out the sweet meat with a spoon. Coconut water quenches even the strongest...
Coconut Yogurt
Coconut Yogurt has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Condensed Milk
Condensed Milk has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 5 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 5
Cream of Wheat
Cream of Wheat has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is pitta balancing and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Date Sugar
Date Sugar has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Date sugar is a complex cabrohydrate that takes longer to digest, thus releasing it's energy more slowly over time into the body.
Dates (soaked)
Dates (soaked) has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 2 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Date sugar is a complex cabrohydrate that takes longer to digest, thus releasing it's energy more slowly over time into the body. Dates contain phyto-hormones for women that tonify reproductive organs.
Dulse
Dulse has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and salty. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Dulse is a red ribbon seaweed. It has a leathery texture.
Egg Whites
Egg Whites has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 4 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 3
Egg whites are pure protein - ojas. Without the cholesterol egg whites are better than yolks for Kapha. The gel like nature of egg white may be whipped to trap air bubbles as in a meringue. These air bubbles act as a leavening agent in many batters...
Figs
Figs has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 4 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and pitta balancing. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
Figs are a heavenly and blessed fruit. Buddha achieved enlightenment under the bodhi tree, a large and old sacred fig tree (Ficus religiosa). In Genesis, Adam and Eve hid their nakedness with fig leaves. The prophet Muhammad exclaimed, "If I had to...
Fish
Fish has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 5 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
Fish is lighter than poultry or meat. Although all meat is considered heavy and tamasic, we are labeling fish as sattvic relative to poultry and red meat.
Flax Seed
Flax Seed has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 5 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing, pitta balancing, and gooey. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 4
If you are constipated, try soaking a teaspoon of flax seeds in warm water for 2 hours. Soaking releases the soluble fiber in flax, which forms a slimy gel that bulks up stools for easy elimination. Its high oil content can lubricate a dry intestinal...
Flower / Bee Pollen
Flower / Bee Pollen has qualities that may be beneficial to you. It received 3 out of 5 stars in your Dry Summer diet because it is vata balancing and salty. For your current diet, these effects were desirable.
Relevancy Score: 2
Nutritive tonic and nerve tonic. Strengthens. Promotes urination.
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