Satvika food

Food from animals:

1. Pure milk from cow Vegetables and fruits:
2. Pure curd from cow
3. Pure butter from cow 1. Banana fruit (in banana, poovan variety
4. Pure ghee from cow. alone is considered to be very good)
2. Monthan banana
Oil types: 3. Pachchai naadan banana
5. Sesame oil 4. Paeyan banana
6. Illupai oil (Oil of Bassia longifolia) 5. Rasthaali banana
7. Coconut oil 6. Sevvaazhai banana
8. Pure honey 7. Ven vaazhai banana
8. Malai vaazhai banana
Crop types: 9. Navarai vaazhai banana
9. Raw date 10. Adukku vaazhai banana
10. Date fruit 11. Karu vaazhai banana
11. Almond seed 12. Coleus aromaticos
12. Dried coconut 13. Tender coconut
13. Raw edible camphor 14. Rose water
14. Saffron flower (Pure) 15. Thaalam neer
15. Nutmeg 16. Lotus water
16. Mace 17. Mango (full of nutrients)
17. Grapes 18. Guava fruit
18. Aelarisi (type of rice) 19. Jaathi naarthai fruit (variety of citrus)
19. Sugar-candy 20. Kozhinji naarthai fruit
20. Raw brown sugar 21. Kichili fruit
21. Jaggery 22. Naartham fruit
22. Dried ginger 23. Black plum
23. Pepper 24. Jack fruit
24. Long pepper 25. Mulai keerai (type of spinach)
25. Fenugreek seed 26. Manaththakkaali keerai (Black night
26. Sesame seed shade greens)
27. Black gram 27. Ponnaam kanni keerai (Alternanthera
28. Rice flake sessilis)
29. Puffed rice 28. Corainder leafs
30. Green gram 29. Fenugreek leafs
31. Millets 30. Chakravarthy keerai
32. Ginger 31. Akathi keerai Sesbania grandiflora
33. Tail pepper 32. Akathi flower
34. White pepper 33. Neem flower
35. Cumin seeds 34. Pasu munnai
36. Wheat 35. Poan musuttai
37. Barley 36. Musuttai
38. Raw rice 37. Curry leaf
39. Seeraka samba (edible rice variety) 38. Thoothulai leaf
40. Milaku samba (edible rice variety) 39. Vajravalli /pirandai (Cissus
41. Kaar arisi (edible rice variety) quadrangularis)
42. Kunrimani samba (edible rice variety) 40. Stem of greens
41. Banana stem 54. Karaikkaai
42. Red spinach stem 55. Jujuba
43. Stem of white spinach 56. Cucumber
44. Saepanthandu (stem of colocasia) 57. Kombu paakal (bitter gourd variety)
45. Colocasia 58. Mithi paakal – a bitter gourd variety
46. Rhizome of lotus 59. Jack vegetable (early stage of Jack fruit)
47. Tuber of sweet potato 60. Mullu kaththirikaai
48. Cococnut 61. Wood apple
49. Small amla 62. Naarthangaai – a citrus variety
50. Amla 63. Kadaara naarthangaai
51. Solanum torvum 64. Kozhinji naarthangaai
52. Cucumis melo var . melo 65. Manaththakkaali fruits
53. Mango (vegetable) 66. Malai sundaikaai


If the quality, taste and quantity of food are in balance and mediocre, then we can say that food
as sathvika food. This food is the basis for giving following good characters in human; serenity,
ahimsa (not disturbing other life), being true, austerity, devotion, grace, forgiveness, satisfaction,
discipline, not being robber, no back bitting, poise and being happy always. We humans used to
get these above characters on eating this satvika type food regularly.

Siththars, yogis, saints, and meditation practitioners used to guide human to intake this type of
food.
Rajo foods

1. Green chillies 31. Ladys finger

2. Oosi Milakaai (Needle chillies) 32. Snake guard
3. Unripe lemon 33. Black cumin
4. Riped lemon 34. Kaattu seeragam
5. Tamarind 35. Pirappu seeragam
6. Fig fruit 36. Cloves
7. Aavaram flower 37. Lavanga pattai
8. Banana flower 38. Appalak kaaram
9. Aru keerai 39. Table salt
10. Red pumpkin leaf 40. Tamarind
11. Pudhina (Mint) 41. Chillies
12. Paara vetrilai (Beetle leaf) 42. Naai kaduku (A type of mustard seed)
13. Maahali kizhangu 43. Red mustard
14. Kaara karunai kizhangu 44. Small mustard
15. Kotti kizhangu 45. White mustard
16. Karunai kizhangu 46. Coriander seed
17. Lotus rhizome 47. Curcuma aromatica
18. Siru kizhangu 48. Musk
19. Kalippaakku 49. Turmeric
20. Mustard oil 50. Cashew nuts
21. Milk from buck (vellaadu) 51. Manila
22. Curd from buck 52. Sagital
23. Oil from buck 53. Red gram
24. Ghee from buck 54. Pineapple
25. Omum 55. Pomegranate
26. Poppy seed 56. Komati maadhulai (A type of
27. Mixed ghee pomegranate)
28. White pumbkin 57. All other food with the feel of hot or
29. Red pumpkin alkaline taste in tongue comes under this rajo
30. Pig snake guard food category.


Rajo food will imbibe following list of characteristics on continual intake. The characteristics
expected are; briskness, vigour, physical strength, self fanaticism, over confidence, brute force,
lust, jealous, anger, psychological outburst, temporal instability, dynamic, enthusiastic and also
have a feel of accomplishing any task.

Moreover, the people and society with zeal, supremacy and with aim of achieving something
were having this rajo mentality.
Thamasa food

1. Onion 26. Raagi (Finger millet)

2. White Garlic 27. Boiled rice
3. Drumstick leaf 28. Brinjal
4. Pasalai leaf 29. Drumstick flower
5. Kalavai keerai 30. Eechavellam (Jaggery from Phnix
6. Aarai keerai dactoeylifera)
7. Siru keerai 31. Panaivellam (Jaggery from Palmyra)
8. Potato 32. Palmyra candy
9. Peruvalli kizhangu 33. Kal types (liquour from coconut, palm like
10. Radish trees)
11. Siruvalli kizhangu 34. Unripen palm fruit
12. Maravalli kizhangu 35. Castor oil
13. Drumstick 36. Paruppu keerai (Chenopodium album)
14. Peerkkai 37. Pulicha keerai (Hibiscus cannabinus)
15. Sword bean 38. Kaasini keerai
16. Mochai 39. Palm fruit
17. Bottle guard 40. Custard apple
18. Avarai (a type of bean) 41. Pannaik keerai
19. Horse gram 42. Cashew fruit
20. Red cholam 43. Buffalo milk
21. Black cholam 44. Buffalo curd
22. Green peas 45. Buffalo butter
23. Black-eyed peas 46. Buffalo ghee
24. Kambu (Pearl millet)
25.Varaku (Kodo millet)

Uncontrolled anger, uncontrolled lust, more sleep, vigorous idiocy, instability are the inherent
characteristics of thamasa food intakers.

People with the above characteristics are arrogant, madly short tempered, cannot think and
judge equally and mostly they will be slave to senses and do silly crimes.

Even our modern science, after various researches accept the fact that the foods plays major
role in one’s character and behavior. From the list of foods distinguished under three types, we
perceive the type we intaken so far and the character it imbibes in us, which might lead to
personal character upgradation.