why many hindu sects don't eat onion and garlic?

[jkvlondon]

On 10/28/2020 at 5:15 PM, shastarSingh said:

present day taksalis r influenced by nirmalas.

nihangs hv no problem with onion and garlic.

they avoid laal(red) mirch though.

it makes sense as if they haven't dried the mircchaa themselves , they could not be sure of suchumta (i.e. touched by tobacco hands , sharabi hands, jhoote hands) too  much mirchaan increases greed and gluttony for swaad ras .

Jains do extreme of ahimsa so do not eat onions garlic or root vegetables .

I agree with DallySingh that it is probably based in ayurvedic principle of diet we are supposed to  eat a more sattvic selection of foods to support ease of development of abhiyaas .

[ChardikalaUK]

Its funny that Indian food is known to be spicy but chillis are originally from Mexico and were only introduced to India by the Portuguese.

[Ranjeet01]

16 minutes ago, ChardikalaUK said:

Its funny that Indian food is known to be spicy but chillis are originally from Mexico and were only introduced to India by the Portuguese.

If you think about it, dishes like aloo gobi never existed until the potato was introduced. 

[Premi5]

32 minutes ago, ChardikalaUK said:

Its funny that Indian food is known to be spicy but chillis are originally from Mexico and were only introduced to India by the Portuguese.

Is that really true? 

[Premi5]

explained well in an old thread

And this video

https://www.sikhawareness.com/topic/18402-tobacco-filth-of-the-world-the-cursed-herb/?do=findComment&comment=169710

[ChardikalaUK]

4 hours ago, Premi5 said:

Is that really true? 

Yes. The Portuguese brought them over in the 16th Century. I wonder if any of the Gurus got to experience their taste.

[jkvlondon]

5 hours ago, Premi5 said:

Is that really true? 

we still had black pepper in our cuisine so that was the oriinal pepper.

[jkvlondon]

1 hour ago, ChardikalaUK said:

Yes. The Portuguese brought them over in the 16th Century. I wonder if any of the Gurus got to experience their taste.

portuguese have been sending envoys and also the catholic church sent priests from 15th century as Guru ji had gone to their holy centre in 1520 , also in Spain they were aware of sikhi