Pungent, sour, salty, excessively hot, sharp, harsh, and burning, Are the foods desired by the passionate (rājasa), causing sorrow, grief, and sickness.
Passionate men crave foods that are bitter, sour, salty, hot, pungent, harsh, and burning, causing pain, grief, and sickness.
(9) Foods that are pungent, sour, salty, stinging hot, sharp, rough, and burning,—[these] are what the man of Passion loves. They bring pain, misery, and sickness.
17.9 Foods that are bitter, sour, salty, very hot, pungent, dry and burning, and which production pain, sorrow and disease, are dear to one having rajas.
17.9 Foods that are bitter, sour, very salty, exceedingly heating, very pungent, dry and burning, are all dear to Rajasika men; they produce pain, sorrow and disease.
17.9 The foods that are bitter, sour, saline, excessively hot, pungent, dry and burning, are liked by the Rajasic and are productive of pain, grief and disease.