6 Tastes of Food + How They Affect your Mood

In Ayurveda, each taste and smell is linked to a specific digestive process and emotion. So, it is not surprising that when you smell brownies in the oven, you feel happy. At the first scent of a meal, a specific digestive process beginning in the mouth, nose, and emotional centers of the brain charge the food with emotion. We continue an emotionally charged digestive process in the stomach and throughout the digestive tract.

As the taste of the food is called rasa and our emotions are also called rasa, the first lymph fluid, or rasa of digestion, will carry the taste and its related emotion into every cell of the body.

Since, according to Ayurveda, each taste carries a different emotion, it is important to have all six major tastes at each meal to create a balanced emotional state.