Healthy Foods to Eat - Eat Right for Your Type

When you are ready to get more specific, you can start eating Ayurvedic diet according to your Ayurveda Body Type. Certain tastes and qualities pacify certain doshas and others aggravate them. The following tables are very helpful as a general guideline on what are healthy foods to eat for each body type.


The tastes & qualities of food are even more important than the individual food items that you eat. For example, sour orange is not good food for pitta, whereas sweet orange is. Sweet flavor is balancing for pitta dosha, whereas sour will bring pitta out of balance. The sweet quality of the orange is more important than the item 'orange.'

On the other hand, raw oats with cold soy milk right from the fridge would be the worst choice for Vata dosha.

Do you see the idea? Since Vata dosha is light, dry and mobile, we want to balance it with opposite qualities.

Pitta dosha doesn't have to have everything cooked. In general, when the digestive fire is weak, cooked food is also better for Pitta (anything cooked is pre-digested), but when pitta's digestive fire is functioning properly, pitta dosha can handle the most raw foods from all three doshas.

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