Promoting life, goodness (sattva), strength, health, happiness, and satisfaction, Juicy, soft, firm, and hearty, are the foods dear to the good (sāttvika).
Foods that please lucid men are savory, smooth, firm, and rich; they promote long life, lucidity, strength, health, pleasure, and delight.
(8) Foods that promote a fuller life, vitality, strength, health, pleasure, and good-feeling, [foods that are] savory, rich in oil and firm, heart-gladdening, [these] are agreeable to the man of Goodness.
17.8 Foods that augment life, firmness of mind, strength, health, happiness and delight, and which are succulent, oleaginous, substantial and agreeable, are dear to one endowed with sattva.
17.8 Foods which promote longevity, intellectual alertness, strength, health, pleasure and happiness and those that are sweet, oil, substantial and agreeable, are dear to Sāttvika men.
17.8 The foods which increase life, purity, strength, health, joy and cheerfulness (good appetite), which are savory and oleaginous, substantial and agreeable, are dear to the Sattvic (pure) people.