In traditional Chinese medicine, foods are often categorized as heaty, neutral or cooling. The ability of these foods to generate hot or cold energy in our bodies is what defines them, not their temperature. With the recent onslaught of warmer weather, I thought it would be useful to have a list of both (since we never know where the temperature will go next week).
Heaty foods: Pepper, cinnamon bark, ginger, soybean oil, red and green pepper, chicken, apricot seed, brown sugar, cherry, chestnut, chive, cinnamon twig, clove, coconut, coffee, coriander (Chinese parsley), date, dill-seed, eel, garlic, grapefruit peel, green onion, guava, ham, leaf mustard, leek, mutton, nutmeg, peach, raspberry, rosemary, shrimp, spearmint, sweet basil, tobacco, vinegar, walnut, jack-fruit, leek, shallots, spring onion, apricots, blackberries, black currant, mangoes, peaches, cherry, mandarin orange, and grape.
Neutral: Corn, abalone, apricot, beef, beetroot, black fungus, carp, carrot, celery, chicken egg yolk, cuttlefish, duck, fig, honey, kidney bean, lotus fruit and seed, milk, olive, oyster, papaya, pork, potato, pumpkin, radish leaf, red bean, plum, sunflower seed, sweet rice, sweet potato, white fungus, yellow soybean, Brussels sprouts, snow peas, sweet potato, taro, dates, figs, raspberries, raisins, sage, rosemary, thyme, brown rice, and apples.
Cooling: Bamboo shoot, banana, bitter gourd, clam, crab, grapefruit, lettuce, persimmon, salt, seaweed, star fruit, sugar cane, water chestnut, watermelon, lotus root, cucumber, barley, bean curd, chicken egg white, marjoram, oyster, pear, peppermint, radish, strawberry, tangerine, and yogurt, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, corn, tomatoes, pineapple, and turmeric.
So, Iron Chefs, what are some recipes you can make out of those ingredients to cool you down as the temperature rises?Source:
www.benefits-of-honey.com/heaty.html
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Comments (5)
Cool stuff. I don't make my food. I eat them.
ahh my parents do this to me all the time. "you can't eat that, it's not cooling. it'll make you break out."
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some of those are unexpected [ie. guava as heat-y, chicken egg whites as cooling] @cornyonacob@xanga - haha yeahhh!
i think you need to get the facts right.
everyone is different in terms of how hot or cold their bodies are...
a cold person eating cold foods will make them sick and vice versa.
just because the temperature is up doesn't mean we have to eat cold foods...
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