Herbal Remedies, Nutrition
Sour Flavor Benefits Your Health
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All food has at least two flavors and there are five different tastes. The five flavors are:
| SOUR | BITTER | PUNGENT | SWEET | SALTY |
SOUR food and herbs are mostly cooling to the body’s systems
Foods that are SOUR in taste support the liver and gallbladder
SOUR flavor assists the heart, small intestines, stomach, spleen, and pancreas.
Food and herbs which are SOUR in taste:
- Keep the tissue firm.
- Help emulsify fats and proteins.
- Dissolve minerals for improved assimilation.
- Keep the body and organs toned.
- Strengthen weakened lungs
- Keeps us grounded
- Play a role in the “heart-mind” organizing scattered mental patterns.
According to the Five Element and Traditional Chinese Medicine
| Taste | Sour |
| Organ | Liver and Gall Bladder |
| Element | Wood |
| Season | Spring the Liver and Gall Bladder will be their strongest or weakest. |
| Virtue | Benevolent, kind |
| Emotions | Liver and Gall Bladder in harmony is focused, calm and grounded. Liver and Gall Bladder imbalanced is impatient, irritable, scatted and angry. |
SOUR FLAVOR FOOD AND HERBS
| Aduki bean | Cheese | Lime | Rosehip |
| Apple | Grape | Mango | Sauerkraut |
| Apple cider vinegar | Hawthorne Berry | Olive | Strawberry |
| Apple, sour | Huckleberry | Pickles | Tangerine |
| Black Cherry | Leek | Plum, sour | Tomato |
| Blueberries | Lemon | Raspberry | Yogurt |