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“THE SIX TASTES Ayurveda recognises six tastes: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter and astringent. All foods and herbs are classified by taste. The taste of a food gives us the key to its actions upon the digestion, the body and ultimately our emotions and our sentiments. In Sanskrit, the word for taste and emotion is the same – ‘rasa’. SWEET → Grains, lentils, fruit, vegetables, dairy. Sweet taste is also called neutral taste. This is to distinguish it from the idea of simple sugar or desserts. It includes proteins, carbs and fats, as well as most fruits and vegetables. About 90 per cent of food is of the sweet/neutral taste.”
― Monisha Bharadwaj, Indian Cookery Course