Sour Taste - The Friend of Salt and Chili Powder

The very mention of the sour taste makes you ooze out saliva in your mouth. There
is no need to describe the process! Sour things have vitamin ‘C’ in them. It’s an open
secret. It subsides your hidden desires. You cannot eat a sweat after eating a sour
fruit. It means the sour taste drives out your desire to eat any other thing after that.
This is one of the seven tastes! It doesn’t go alone! It carries with it salt and chili
powder.
Tamarind is from dried raw tamarind. It helps in free motion. Tamarind when it
becomes dry, works as a medicine. For instance tea leaves don’t enervate you when
they are fresh. Once they become dry enervating ingredient tean is produced in
them. That enervates our nerves when we drink tea. The same way tobacco leaves.
So too much tamarind juice harms the intestines.
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If you use raw tamarind in place salt, you won’t miss the presence of salt in it! The
curries will be tastier still if you can use un-ripened mangoes when they are
available. Even the tamarind tender leaves don’t remind you of the saltlessness.
Lemon is available throughout the year. It can be used as a replacement to salt. It
has C vitamin.
There is a vast difference between limejuice and tamarind juice. If you eat a curry –
seasoned vegetables - with limejuice squeezed over it, due to its sour taste, you
don’t want to eat anything till that food is digested. The iron content in the food, and
the ‘C’ vitamin in lemon juice, both of them join together to help in the free and
complete flow of digested food from intestines to blood. That means the lemon juice
helps in the proper usage of ‘iron’ in the food, without being wasted. As a result your
desire for ‘taste’ subsides. If you can control your desire for ‘taste’ you can
involuntarily regain self-control over everything. This control is the foundation stone
for your good health and for spiritual thinking.