Consuming the right kind of foods can help to reduce mood swings,
ailments and discomforts. Here is some effort from our side to find
the three types - Heaty, Cold and Neutral foods.

Foods are differentiated on the basis of their capacity to generate
sensations of heat or cold in the body. Sometimes, the method of
preparation change the effects rendered.

Heaty foods are those which grow under the sun. They are
sweet/hard/spicy with lots of fats and sodium. Examples: 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,
dillseed, eel, garlic, grapefruit peel, green onion, guava, ham,
leaf mustard, leek, longan, mutton, nutmeg, peach, raspberry,
rosemary, shrimp, spearmint, sweet basil, tobacco, vinegar, walnut,
jackfruit, durian, leek, shallots, spring onion, , apricots,
blackberries, black currant, mangoes, peaches, cherry, mandarin
orange, grape.

Cold foods grow in little sun, are lean, salty, soft and wet with
high potassium. Examples: 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, zuccini, corn, tomatoes, pineapple, turmeric.

The third category includes honey, corn, apricot, beef, beetroot,
carrot, celery, chicken egg yolk, cuttlefish, duck, fig, 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, dates, figs, raspberries, raisins, sage,
rosemary, thyme, brown rice, apple.

Vata Dosha requires warm foods and Pitta Dosha needs cold foods.
Kapha types can have warm and mildly spicy foods. Ask your
Ayurvedic Doctor to know what foods suit your condition the best