Yin Or Yang Food. A raw diet is naturally more yin but if you want to make it more yang doing it in a macrobiotic kind of way makes sense. Basically yang is fire contracting energy yin is cooling and expansive.
This means keeping to low gi fruits and and preparing more foods rather than just eating cooling fruits on their own. This has less to do with the actual temperature or moisture of the food and more to do with its energetics. Cherries coconut lemons raspberries cauliflower mustard greens onion coffee garlic fresh ginger chestnuts pumpkin seeds walnuts chicken shrimp mussels lobster turkey yogurt butter.
Apples bananas pears strawberries broccoli cabbage eggplant spinach Swiss chard celery soybeans buckwheat sesame oil.
Foods considered yin include dark leafy greens like spinach lotus root radish dandelion greens cucumbers bamboo shoots seaweed watermelon green tea chamomile tea mint tea clams crab and tofu Yu said. A raw diet is naturally more yin but if you want to make it more yang doing it in a macrobiotic kind of way makes sense. Basically yang is fire contracting energy yin is cooling and expansive. Yang foods tend to be warming and drying.
