If you are familiar with TCM (traditional Chinese medicine), you would have heard of different foods being referred to as being ‘heaty’ and ‘cooling’.

​​​​​​​This concept is based on the Chinese philosophy of yin (cooling) and yang (heaty), and the terms ‘heaty’ and ‘cooling’ are used as a classification system to describe symptoms and characteristics of certain foods and the effects they have on our body. This is a system that has been developed over more than 2,000 years of detailed observation in TCM.