Ayurvedic
Nutrition and Cooking : Book Review
Living a Healthy Life with a healthy
food is the concept elaborated easier written by author, Dr. Sunanda Ranade
The
book is a great source of healthy recipes for both beginners and experienced
persons who are much more affectionate towards Ayurved. Book is featuring
delicious, easy to make recipes by simple complete explanation with beautiful
photos. This is possibly the best recipe book one can read.
The
traditional ayurvedic diet is purely put in a modernized version of the foods
that our ancestors ate, hence the name “Ayurvedic nutrition and cooking”. Ayurvedic nutritional diets are made up of nutrient-rich
organic foods, includes different types of cereals, grains, natural oils, fats,
nuts, fruits and additive herbal drugs. The food articles mentioned are
prepared by application of basic principles of ayurvedic traditional science.
Great efforts are taken by author to describe fundamental concepts of body-mind constitutions,
assessment of individual’s physical and psychological characteristics. The
attempt is made by author to address importance of daily food items for
specific constitution in purview of prevention and management of illness.
Especially
in basic principles of nutrition chapter explanation about wholesome and
unwholesome dietary products, accountability of eight factors in dietetics,
quality properties and pharmacological actions of food substances are well
narrated. Outstanding recipes from the book include milk processed with herbal
drugs, Indian specific snacks and rice recipe, leafy-non leafy vegetables-curries
processed with spices and coconuts, variety of mouth -watering pickles. All
these food articles are often served as snacks, main course foods and some are
the taste enhancers.
The book does offer advice about the benefits of
these food stuffs in relation to ayurvedic Vata-Pitta and Kapha entities along
with the desired effects on constituents of human being. This book will play an
important role to globalize the concept of ayurvedic cooking.
Dr.
Madhuri Pawar, Associate Professor
Dept
of Ayurvedic pharmaceutics and pharmacology
BV[Deemed
to be University] College of Ayurved, Pune
