Food Characteristics and the Body’s Balance
Each food has various qualities, categorized as cold, warm, or neutral for convenience. What we eat today impacts our health tomorrow. Choosing the right foods is crucial.
Unique Energy and Food Preferences:
Just like personalities, every living thing – animals, plants, and even us – possesses a unique energy balance reflected in physical appearance and function. Similar to animals drawn to specific plants, we gravitate towards certain foods. However, excessive indulgence can disrupt our body’s balance and negatively affect health.
Food Categories and Subjective Temperature:
The following dietary classifications differ from those used in Western medicine and chemical analysis. If you naturally feel warm, focus on consuming cooling and neutral foods. Conversely, those who feel cold should prioritize warming and neutral options.
Listen to Your Body:
Even if a food is considered generally healthy, avoid it if it causes gas and bloating. This could indicate your body doesn’t tolerate it well.
Cold foods
Fruits | Vegetables | Grains, Legumes & Seeds | Meat, Seafood & Dairy | Condiments & Beverages |
Apple, Avocado, Banana, Grapefruit, Kiwifruit, Lemon, Mango Orange, Pear, Persimmon, Pineapple, Pomelo, Star fruit, Strawberry, Water melon, Tomato | Alfalfa sprouts, Asparagus, Bamboo shoots, Bitter Gourd, Bok Choy, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Celery, Chinese Radish, Cucumber, Eggplant, Endive, Green leafy vegetables, Kelp, Lettuce Lotus Root, Mushroom, Radish, Spinach, Swiss chard, Tomato, Water chestnut, Watercress, Winter Melon | Barley, Buckwheat, Millet, Mung Bean, Soy Bean, Tofu, Wheat bran, Whole wheat, Amaranth, Job’s tear (Pearl barley) | Clam, Cheese, Crab, Egg, Crabs, Flounder, Octopus, Rock fish, Red Snapper, Duck, Pork, Rabbit, Seaweed Yoghurt | Chrysanthemum Tea, Green Tea, Peppermint Tea, Salt, Sesame oil, Soya sauce |
Warm foods
Fruits | Vegetables | Grains, Legumes & Seeds | Meat, Seafood & Dairy | Condiments & Beverages |
Apricot, Cherry, Chestnut, Pine nut Jujube, Coconut meat, Coconut milk, Date, Guava, Hawthorn, Longan, Lychee, Mandarin peel , Mango, Nectarine, Peach, Raspberry | Chives, Leek, Mustard, Onion, Pumpkin, Onion, Squash, Sweet Potato, Parsnip | Caraway, Chestnut, Sweet Rice, Malt, Oats, Pine nut, Pistachio, Sorghum, Walnut | Butter, Chicken, Deer (Venison) Eel, Goat Milk, Lamb, Kombu (Gonbu), Oyster, Mussels, Prawns, (shrimp), Sea cucumber, Tuna, Trout, Salmon, Croaker, Cod, Pacific saury- (mackerel pike), Squid( Calamari) Venison | Basil, Bay Leaf, Black pepper, Brown Sugar, Chilli, Cinnamon, Clove, Coffee, Coriander, Cumin, Dill, Fennel seed, Garlic, Ginger, Ginseng, Jasmine tea, Mustard, Nutmeg, Rosemary, Spearmint, Vinegar, Wine |
Neutral foods
Neutral foods are suitable for all body types.
Fruits | Vegetables | Grains, Legumes & Seeds | Meat, Seafood & Dairy | Condiments & Beverages |
Figs, Goji Berries, Grapes, Olive, Papaya, Plum, Pomme Granates | Beets, Black fungus mushrooms, Carrot, Chinese cabbage, Corn, Potato, Pumpkin, Shiitake mushroom, Sweet potato, Taro, Turnip, White fungus, Yam | Adzuki Bean, Almond, Black sesame seed, Black soybean, Broad bean, Kidney bean, Lotus seed, Peanut, Peas, Rice bran, Rye, String bean, Sunflower seed, White rice, Yellow soybean, | Abalone, Beef, Cow’s milk, Carp Duck Fish, Herring, Oyster, Sardine, Shark, Scallop | Honey, Saffron, Licorice |
Source: TEM band