THE ENERGETICS OF FOOD

Cooling and Moistening:
Apple
Avocado
Banana
Barley
Biscuits
Bread
Brinjal
Cake
Cantaloupe (“Spanspek”)
Chicken Egg
Crab
Cucumber
Grapefruit
Grapes
Ice Cream
Kelp
Kiwi Fruit
Lettuce
Litchis
Mango
Melons
Millet
Mung Beans (sprouts)
Pasta
Pear
Persimmon
Rabbit
Salt & salty food
Soya beans
Spinach or Swiss Chard
Sugar (white)
Sugar cane
Tangerine
Tomato
Vinegar
Watermelon
Wheat
Yoghurt

Warming and Moistening:
Artichoke
Beef
Butter
Cashew nut
Cherry
Chickpea
Chocolate
Cream
Dates
Ham
Lemon
Lime
Lobster
Malt, maltose and molasses
Mussels
Oily fish
Orange
Papaya
Peach
Pistachios (salted)
Squash (winter)
Sugar (brown)
Sunflower seeds
Vinegar & Pickled food

Neutral and Moistening:
Apricot
Beetroot
Carrots
Cheese
Coconut
Corn (mielies…) & Sweet corn
Cow’s Milk
Duck
Figs
Kidney Bean
Olives (more cooling in brine)
Peanuts
Pineapple
Plum
Pork
Potato and Sweet Potato
Pumpkin
Rice – Polished
Royal Jelly
Soya Milk

Warming and Drying:
Alcohol, including:
Beer,
Wine,
Brandy and
Whisky.

Aubergine
Blackberries
Veal
Cayenne
Celery Seeds
Chicken
Chives
Cloves
Coffee
Coriander
Dried Fruit
Fennel Seed
Garlic
Ginger (fresh)
Onion
Goose
Gooseberries
Guavas
Lamb
Leek
Black Pepper
White Pepper
Pistachios (raw, unsalted)
Prawn
Raspberries
Rooster
Sheep or Goat Meat
Shrimp
Smoked food
Sorghum
Strawberries
Venison
Walnuts

Cooling and Drying:
Beans
Broccoli
Cabbage
Cauliflower
Celery stalks
Chicory
Parsley
Peas
Mushrooms
Spinach

Teas, such as:
Ceylon,
Rooibos,
Honeybush,
Early Grey
Green tea

Cooling and Neutral:
Asparagus
Courgette

Neutral
Honey
White Fish