The Chinese divide foods into yin and yang. A healthy person should have a balance of Yang and Yin foods, as well as neutral foods.
cooling foods for your body
Yin foods are foods that cool the body. Yin foods are cooling, calming, and nourishing. Yin foods are recommended for Yin deficient and Yang excess imbalance.
Avoid some strongly yin foods, such as sugars, alcohol, and coffee.
In the middle of the day, when the temperature is more yaang (or hot), you want to eat more yin (cooling foods). Your mid-day meal, or lunch, should consist of salads and fruits.
yin foods (cool)
- alfalfa sprouts
- apple
- apricot
- Asian pear
- asparagus
- bamboo
- bamboo shoots
- barley, pearl
- bok choy
- broccoli
- burdock root
- carrot
- cauliflower
- celery
- chicken eggs (not recommended)
- Chinese cabbage
- clam
- crab
- cucumber
- Daikon radish
- dandelion
- dandelion greens
- eggs, chicken (not recommended)
- eggplant
- endive
- grapefruit
- lemon
- lotus root
- millet
- orange
- peach
- pear
- pearl barley
- persimmon
- pork (not recommended)
- potato
- pumpkin
- Romaine lettuce
- soy bean sprouts
- spinach
- squash
- strawberry
- tangerine
- tomato
- turnip
- watecress
- wheat
- zucchini
strongly yin foods (cold)
- alcohol (not recommended)
- ale (not recommended)
- banana
- beer (not recommended)
- cantaloupe
- Chinese cucumber
- coffee (not recommended)
- dulse
- kelp
- mulberry
- refined sugars (not recommended)
- seaweed
- tea
- water chestnut
- watermelon
See also yang foods, neutral foods, and feminine herbs
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