Diet for Vata

The following are the food items that need to be included in the diet for people with vata constitution -

• Wheat
• Rice
• Quinoa
• Amaranth
• Oats
• Black gram
• Barley
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  (Hordeum vulgare)
• Sesame seeds
• Liquid diets
• Milk
• Curd
• Sweets
• Ghee
• Sesame oil
• Old Jaggery
• Caster oil
• Coconut
• Mustard

Vegetables

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• Asparagus
• Eggplant
• Pointed gourd

• Snake gourd
• Onion
• Drumstick
• Elephant root
• Ginger
• Garlic
• Carrot
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• Radish
• Beets
• Cilantro
• Cucumber
• Lady’s finger
• Pumpkin
• Carrot Anise
• Jerusalem artichoke
• Leafy greens
• Leeks
• Lettuce
• Mustard greens
• Okra
• Olives, black
• Parsley
• Parsnip
• Rutabaga
• Sweet potato
• Spinach
• Taro root
• Turnip
• Watercress
• Zucchini

The vegetables should preferably be steam- cooked