SEASONAL FOODS FOR THE GOOD HEALTH

 

Seasonal foods (Regimen)

 

We have to eat foods as per summer, rainy seasons and other times.  From this we will give correct proteins to our body, details are below :-

 

·         Grishma Ritu (Summer) (Baisakh, Jeth) it is in April, May and June months in every year :- 

Include bitter, astringent, sweet, cooling, light and liquid foods in the diet for example rice, green gram, finger beans, pulses, mango, pomegranate, buttermilk, onion.  Drink plenty of water and liquid preparations made from tamarind, kokum, unripe mango, falsa, foeniculum seeds, coriander seeds and leaves, mint leaves like panna, kokum sherbet etc.

 

·         Varsha Ritu (monsoon season ) (Ashadh-Shravan) it is in June, July and August months in every year :- 

Eat salty, sour, light and sweet foods with fats such as oil ghee, butter etc for example pulses, rice, moraiya (a local grain eaten in fasts), green gram, yam, pomegranate, sesame oil, fenugreek seeds (methi), asafoetida (hing), bishops weed seeds (ajwain etc. eat green leafy vegetables after adding plenty of ginger, black pepper to avoid indigestion.

 

·         Sharad ritu (autumn season) (Bhadrapad, ASO) it is in August, September and October of every year :-

Ear astringent, sweet, cooling and light foods for example jamun, rice, pulses particularly green gram dal, banana, milk, sugar, ghee, amla.

 

·         Winter season (Shishir and hemant ritu) (Kartik, Margshirsh, Posh, Maha) it is in every year of October to January months :-

Eat sweet, Salty, sour, energy giving heavy greasy foods, wheat, black gram, tuver, banana, guava, rice, tubers, ghee, milk and milk products, fenugreek, amla, seasonal vegetables etc. Eat foods rich in energy like laddoos, edible gum, dry fruits etc.

 

·         Vasant ritu (Fagun, Chaitra) it is in February and March month of every calendar year :-

Eat astringent, bitter, pungent, light, heat producing, dry, foods in small quantity eg dal, rice, chapatti, green gram, puffed and flaked rice, Bengal gram, dates, jiggery, bitter gourd etc.

 

Try to eat as per season foods because keep healthy and enjoy the season wise foods/vegetables.

 

I am sharing my Opinion on this.