My Sattvik Plate

  Fruits - All fresh seasonal fruits Vegetables - Fresh Vegetables, Greens. Here Onion and Garlic are not Sattvik and are to be used more like a medicine. Whole Grains - Rice, Wheat, Barley, Jowar, Bajra, Makkai, Millets Lentils - All varieties of deals, sprouts Nuts and Seeds - Almonds, Walnuts, Cashewnuts, Pumpkin seeds Milk products - Milk, Ghee, vegan alternatives Sweetner - Unrefined Jaggery , Honey, Coconut Sugar, Unrefined raw sugar, Maple sugar, molasses Spices - Ginger is the king of spices in Sattvik food as it balances all the three Doshas. Black pepper, Turmeric, Coriander seeds, Mustard seeds, Jeera, Methi, Tulsi, Cinnamon, Cardamom, Fennel Plant based oils - cold pressed oils like Coconut, Sesame, Avocado, Olive, Grape, Sunflower A good place to start if you are planning to include Sattvik food to your diet is by having fresh seasonal fruits and then slowly making one meal a day / couple of days a week Sattvik. Soon you will start to feel the difference and will easil...

  Ayurveda divides food into three categories - Sattvik, Rajasic,  and Tamasic.  Sattvik food is mainly fresh and nourishing vegetarian food either cooked or raw, promotes clear mind, always easy to digest, cooked with love and eaten with gratitude and awareness. Rajasic food is very spicy, includes food with garlic and onion, coffee, soft drinks, refined sugar.  makes you feel aggressive, passionate and fierce after eating it Tamasic food is highly over processed, non vegetarian, fried, frozen, microwaved, takes a very long time to digest, makes you feel dull, lethargic, and/or intoxicated after eating. Lets take an example of a Potato: Here, Sattvik food would be a boiled potato with some salt and pepper. Rajasic would be a potato curry with lots of spices, cooked with onions, garlic, oil, salt. Tamasic would be fries, processed potato chips. Overall, Ayurveda recommends to mainly eat Sattvik food, have Rajasic food as per our energy demands and reduce Tamasic food...