vegetables

 A jar of your own handmade pickles; who would think there was such a mighty food right under our noses? And yet you will find no better source of core nutrition than this humble, old-fashioned food.

Good news! When you reintroduce pickles [the kind that teems with live-culture] on a regular basis,the body takes to them, improving digestion with every bite.Read more

On the left side of the scale we have Yin food, starting from just a little bit Yin to extreme Yin: beans and sea vegetables, roots and winter squash, leafy greens and seeds, local fruits and nuts, potato and tomato, tropical fruit, butter and oil, honey and spices, sugar and coffee, alcohol and chemicals.

The healthier you want to be, the more you have to avoid extreme Yin. If you live in a temperate climate, you should stop at the local fruits and nuts for most of your Yin input.