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.

kaṭu = bitter; āmla = sour; lavaṇa = salty; atyuṣṇa = very hot; tīkṣṇa = pungent; rukṣa = dry; vidāhinaḥ = burning; āhāraḥ = food; rājasasya = to one in the mode of passion; iṣṭāḥ = palatable; duḥkha = distress; śoka = misery; āmaya = disease; pradāḥ = causing.;