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According to Ayurveda
Posted by Radha Pukan | Apr 13, 2014 | 46,141 views
There are many benefits of including rice as a part of ones diet. Ayurveda
recommends the six fundamental tastes on the plate during meal times.
This includes sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent and astringent. Rice is one
of the major constituents of Ayurveda meals that add a flavor of sweetness.
It is light, soft and nourishing when cooked. It also has a wonderful cooling
nature and it thus plays an important role in balancing the Vata and Pitta
doshas. To balance Vata dosha, one must consume well-cooked rice soaked
and boiled in water. In Sattvic meals a dash of clarified butter (ghee) is
added while cooking the rice. Desserts made with rice and milk are
predominantly cooling and complementary for Pitta dosha. Basmati rice is
great for such preparations. But such rice does in fact create a volume of
mucus. Due to this reason it becomes important for those with Kapha
dosha predominance to avoid eating rice too often. Dry-roasting it prior to
eating is a good idea as it lessens heaviness.
One must be careful about how the rice is cooked. Rice that is cooked al
dente, without enough water, can cause gas, bloating and constipation for
Vata people. It must be cooked in water for a long while and finally strained
from it. If rice gives one gas, then one must add extra water and cook it
until it is soft and puffy. This is the right way to eat. Poorly digested food
becomes poison or aama in the digestive tract. Rice has good medicinal
value too and can counter aama. Ayurveda recommends white rice for
issues like gas, bloating, or indigestion.
basmati and pusa basmati. Outside of India there are varieties called as
texmati and pishori basmati.