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Usage for astringent


It is said that complete food is one that has all six rasas or tastes – sweet, sour, salt, pungent, bitter and astringent. In a typical South Indian platter the first item served is a kheer (sweet) and ...

In herbology they are called astringent meaning foods and herbs that are natural blood cleansers and antibiotic in nature. The word anti (against) – biotic (life), refers to a list of pharmaceutical antimicrobials designed to kill harmful bacteria in ...

This astringent line, about Thomas Hardy's funeral, is from the diary of Virginia Woolf, and also from Dominick Argento's classic 1974 song cycle, “From the Diary of Virginia Woolf.” Jennifer Johnson Cano The mezzo-soprano, accompanied by Christopher ...

Maté has a very bitter and astringent taste to the uninitiated. "How was it?" the huddled group asks. My face clearly tells the story. I know this because everyone bursts out laughing. I regard the bowl with the sort of disdainful look that says: "Did ...

Flavor: With Swiss chard, a bite of the raw leaf is bitter and astringent, but butter chard is surprisingly sweet. It had tender leaves that are closer to the texture of lettuce than bitter chard. DeVault says he uses raw butter chard in his salads and ...


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