One of my newsletter subscribers asked me this question: “Why does sattvic diet avoid onion or garlic?”

Thank you for asking this question. I am answering this question in the blog because it might help other people also.

People often tell me, “We are vegetarians. So, we eat sattvic food.”

One common misunderstanding about sattvic diet is that any vegetarian food is sattvic food. The science and philosophy of sattvic diet is based on several inter-related practices of Hinduism, Buddhism, and to some extent, Jainism.