Moderate Yin and Yang Food That Will Keep You Fit And Healthy
If you balance your diet with moderate-energy foods, you can easily keep your body and mind healthy. Avoid extreme yin and yang foods and have these moderate foods.
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Last time I listed some foods with extreme yin and yang qualities that are difficult to balance. Here are some moderate-energy foods to balance your diet to achieve health and freedom.
These moderate energy foods are relatively easy to balance and can be divided into moderate yin and moderate yang.
If you’re sick, suffering from a cold, or the COVID-19 that’s currently sweeping the world, and you’re feeling physically drained, you should choose what to eat from these moderate yin foods or moderate yang foods I'm going to show you.
Moderate yin grains are sprouted brown rice, green rice, oatmeal, sorghum, couscous, job’s tears, pressed barley, whole barley, whole wheat flour, whole wheat udon noodle, whole wheat somen noodle, corn, and polenta.
Moderate yang grains include brown rice, red rice, black rice, whole buckwheat, barnyard millet, foxtail millet, common millet, quinoa, amaranthus, glutenous brown rice, whole wheat pasta, 100% buckwheat noodle, and whole wheat natural yeast bread.
Moderate yin vegetables are leaf vegetables such as Japanese mustard spinach, edible chrysanthemum, pak choi, Chinese cabbage, tah tsai, okahijiki (Salsola komarovii), Mitsuba (Japanese parsley), Daikon leaf, radish, wasabi leaf, turnip leaf, Seri (Japanese parsley), watercress, Mizuna greens, mustard leaf, and rape leaf.
White leek, parsley, celery, broccoli, and cucumber.
Snap peas, green peas, green beans. Sprouts such as bean sprouts, radish sprouts, and alfalfa sprouts. Lettuce.
Edible wild plants come out in spring such as Fuki-noto (Japanese butterbur), and bamboo shoots.
Mushrooms such as dried shiitake mushroom, fresh shiitake mushroom, shimeji mushroom, maitake mushroom, enoki mushroom, matsutake mushroom, nameko mushroom, and mushroom.
Taro, konnyaku, horse radish, and ginger.
Seeds and nuts such as almonds, peanuts, sunflower seeds, walnut, and ginkgo nut are moderate yin.
Moderate yang vegetables are root vegetables such as burdock, lotus root, carrot, daikon radish, dried strips of daikon radish, Japanese yam, and turnip. Round vegetables such as cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, pumpkin, and onion.
Chestnut, sesame seed, pumpkin seed, and Yoshino kudzu are moderate yang.
Moderate yin beans are soybean, natto, tempeh, tofu, pinto bean, fava bean, chickpea, kidney bean, mung bean, edamame (young soybean), and soybean product such as fried tofu, soy milk, and okara (soy pulp).
Moderate yang beans are lentil, azuki, black soybean, and Koya-tofu (freeze-dried tofu).
Moderate yin seaweeds are nori, aonori, mozuku, agar, wakame, mekabu, and mehibi.
Moderate yang seaweeds are hijiki, arame, and kelp.
Moderate yin fruits are tangerine, orange, lemon, peach, Japanese pear, pear, melon, watermelon, grape, and persimmon.
Moderate yang fruits are apple, berries such as strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, cranberry, and blackberry, and dried fruit such as raisin and cherry.
As for seasonings, white miso, vinegar, barley miso, rape seed oil, olive oil, and corn oil are moderate yin.
Natural sea salt, blended miso, rice miso, soybean miso, soy sauce, plum vinegar, and sesame oil are moderate yang.
Moderate yin condiments good to eat brown rice with are perilla condiment, wakame condiment, and aonori condiment.
Gomashio (salt with sesame) and tekka miso are moderate yang.
Among pickles, Bettara-zuke, Nara-zuke, Nozawana-zuke, Asa-zuke, sweet ginger pickles, and German salt pickled cabbage Sauerkraut are relatively yin.
Takuan, Nuka-zuke (typical Japanese pickles made of fermented rice bran), Furu-zuke, and Umeboshi (pickled salty plum) are yang.
Among sweeteners, brown rice amazake, beet sugar, maple syrup, and apple juice are yin, and rice malt syrup is yang. Raisins are used as sweetener occasionally which is yang.
As for tea, Mugi-cha (roasted barley tea) drunk often in the summertime in Japan, green tea and herbal tea are yin.
Hoji-cha, San-nen-bancha, Kuki-cha (green tea mainly uses stems instead of leaves), roasted grain beverage are yang, and dandelion coffee (roasted dandelion root) is very yang.
And animal-derived foods of moderate energy compared to the extreme yang animal-derived foods I mentioned former are white-fleshed fish such as sea bass, flatfish, flounder, sillago, sea bream, cod, and tilefish, and river fish such as carp, crucian carp, sweetfish, trout, and rockfish, and shellfish such as Japanese clam, oyster, abalone, and turban shell.
Those foods of moderate energy are relatively easy to balance, but if you continue to eat the same food as it is said to be good for health, you’ll get biased yin or yang anyways which leads to sickness or illness.
To avoid that, when you eat yin food, it is necessary to prepare yang food to make balance, and vice versa is right.
Originally distributed by Hiroyuki Naka, a macrobiotic mentor, as an E-mail newsletter in Japanese on Feb 8th 2022.
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