Yin is cold, yang is warm

It would be smart, for example, to take a look at traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). It assigns foods to different groups based on their thermal properties: cold, cool, warm, hot, and neutral. When which food is good for us is derived from the yin and yang principle: the "yin" stands for the cold part, the "yang" for the warm part. In TCM, it is assumed that our body only functions properly when both sides are in balance.

When we're hot, we should primarily reach for cooling foods - which I'm sure most of us already do intuitively anyway. But here we'll tell you which things you should especially dig into: