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a complete meal
In Vedic times, a complete meal had to contain all the six tastes: pungent, acid, sweet, salty, bitter and alkaline. It also contained five types of food bhakshya (crunchy/chewy), bhojya (semi-solids), choshya (suckable, like mangoes), lehya (lickable, like honey) and peya (drinkable). Ancient Indians divided all food into three categories based on their effect on […]










