The Pitta-Pacifying Diet Simplified 1. Favor foods that are cool and liquid. Minimize foods that are hot. Favor foods that are sweet, bitter, or astringent. Minimize foods that are spicy, salty or sour.
All sweeteners are good except for honey and molasses.
Reduce sesame, almond, and corn oil, all of which increase pitta. Wheat, white rice, barley. Reduce corn, rye, millet, and brown rice. Favor sweet fruits such as grapes, cherries, melons, avocado, coconut, pomegranates, mangoes, sweet, fully-ripened oranges, pineapples, and plums. Favor asparagus, cucumber, potato, sweet potato, green leafy vegetables, pumpkins, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, okra, lettuce, beans, green beans, zucchini.