Food Items for Kapha

The following are the food items advised for people having kapha constitution:

• Old Wheat
• Barley (Hordeum vulgare)
• Bajra (Pearl millet)
• One-year-old jaggery
• Amaranthus
• Chickpea (Bengal gram)
• Horse gram
• Red gram
• Mung dal (Green gram)
• Moth (Dew gram)
• Masoor (lentil)
• Pea
• Sesame oil
• Mustard oil
• Milk/ghee/curd of goat

Vegetables:

• Pointed gourd (Trichosanthes dioica)
• Garlic (Allium sativum)
• Bitter gourd
• Eggplant
• Carrot (Daucus carota)
• Cowpea
• Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum graecum)
• Drumstick (Moringa oliefera)
• Elephant root (Amorphophallus campanulatus)
• Beetroot
• Carrot
• Beans
• Cabbage
• Tender radish
• Turnip
• Plantain
• Flat bean
• Drumstick
• Ivy gourd
• Plantain flower
• Plantain steam
• Jeevanti (Leptedania reticulata)
• Pumpkin
• Cauliflower

Fruits:

• Figs
• Black berry
• Pomegranate
• Lime
• Mulberry
• Betel nut
• Apples
• Apricot
• Pears
• Dry fruits

Spices:

• King’s cumin
• Pepper
• Dried ginger
• Ginger
• Cardamom
• Bay leaves
• Clove
• Saffron
• Tulasi (Sacred Basil/Holy Basil)
• Coriander seeds
• Spear-Mint/Garden mint
• Green chili
• Garlic
• Turmeric
• Asafetida

Diet restricted for people having kapha constitution:

Food Items

• New Wheat
• Curd
• Butter
• Things made up of cow's and buffalo milk
• Sweets
• Sugar
• New jaggery
• Corn
• Coconut
• Groundnut

Vegetables:

• Cucumber
• Bottle gourd
• Spinach
• Potato
• Ladies finger
• Sweet potato
• White gourd melon

Fruits:

• Pineapple
• Ripe Mango
• Banana
• Guava
• Water melon
• Coconut
• Jackfruit
• Sugarcane

Dry Fruits:

• Walnut
• Pista (Pistachio nut)
• Almond

Spices:

• Poppy seeds
• Bay leaves
• Aniseed
• Tamarind