Summer Foods and Winter Foods

the other day my mother told me to take care of diet,eat less of chicken etc.. that prompted me to find out more about foods for summer and foods for winter.i am now clear which recipes to choose etc.so this is my conclusions of the topic,courtesy to the world wide web of course.

By instinct we all know that some foods are good in summer and some good for winters.ie some foods have the cooling effects and others the warming so the food we take in all around the year is not the same.
there are different factors that are to be considered:


#1.raw foods have more cooling effect than cooked food,adding up the foods which takes shorter time to cook have more cooling effect.like celery,radish,cucumber,lettuce etc.

#2.color of the food also play important role:such as green apple better than red apple.the colors preferred for cooling are green,blue and purple vegetables and fruits.

#3.preparation method:the most quickly and lightly cooked food have cooling effect than the deep frying ones.

#4 herbs and spices also have different effects.[will list in detail]

#5.among beverages alcohol and wines are warming ones,idle for winter and vegetable broth herbal tea have cooling effects.

#6.among the dairy foods,the most cooling one is yogurt.most dairy have a neutral effect.seafood has cooling effect whereas the meats especially chicken has warming effect.


#7 among the grains,wheat,barley millet and all kinds have beans have cooling effect.


now the list of cooling foods are:

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,Fresh ginger, marjoram, cilantro, lemon balm, peppermint, and white peppercorn are cooling spices



warming to be minimized in summer

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.cabbage, kale, mustard greens, onions, garlic, winter squash, parsnip, leek,chive, scallion, cherries, and dates


Beef is considered as neutral, but if you have it deep fried or grilled, it would be considered as heaty


Neutral (balanced yin and yang) Foods:
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, apple.


so keep body cool and njoy summer...!!

Hi neets,

i am very happy after reading cooling food list....my body temperature is mostly higher than average.sometimes feel like taking a shower forever.....thanks for sharing this...May god bless you....

most welcome and thanks too krishneundu.even my body temp is high and in summer when i have chicken foods i found it hard to sleep at night and now that i found out i eat watermelon to stabilize it.hope it helps you too.

Neets,

Thanks for the tip.sure,i will give it a try..

hi neets,
I too had the same problem and now seeing ur post i got aware of the foods to be avoided in summer.Thanx very much.I will try out and will give feedback.