04/03/2026
According to Ayurvedic Nutrition, sweet is one of the tastes we should be consuming daily. You don’t need to tell most people twice to have sweets daily - we do it enough! We do it so much in fact that we’ve started to blame sweet things and sugar as the reason behind many of our health problems.
But before we make sweet things the scapegoat, let me tell you something - the sweet taste isn’t the problem.
There are two other issues that we’re ignoring:
1️⃣ Nothing in the world is universally good or universally bad. It’s how we use it that’s the problem. We are over consuming the sweet taste. And unfortunately it’s without even realising it. Most processed foods have a large amount of sugars or sweetners in them - because this ingredient is great at food preservation. And so even if we skip dessert, our sugar intake slowly adds up when we reach for a lot of processed foods.
The solution: cook more at home, from scratch, where possible. You know exactly what’s gone into your meals and you gain back control over how much of the sweet taste you’re consuming.
2️⃣ The source of your sweet taste is crucial to how this taste affects your body. When you rely on a lot of processed sugars or artificial sweetners, you end up craving more sweet - and it’s a vicious cycle that never seems to end. But when you reach for more natural sources of sugars/sweetners to fulfill that sweet taste within your day, you’ll find yourself more satisfied, and don’t feel the need to reach for more and more sweet!
The solution: choose unrefined sugars from a whole food/unprocessed source. Raw cane sugar, maple syrup, honey, jaggery, rock mishri, agave syrup, dates etc.
