Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 17, Verse 9

कट्वम्ललवणात्युष्णतीक्ष्णरूक्षविदाहिनः । आहारा राजसस्येष्टा दुःखशोकामयप्रदाः

kaṭvamlalavaṇātyuṣṇatīkṣṇarūkṣavidāhinaḥ | āhārā rājasasyeṣṭā duḥkhaśokāmayapradāḥ

Translation

The foods that are bitter, sour, saline, excessively hot, pungent, dry and burning, are liked by the Rājasic, causing pain, grief and disease.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

kaṭvamlalavaṇātyuṣṇatīkṣṇarūkṣavidāhinaḥ

bitter, and, sour, and, salt, and, very hot, and, pungent, and, dry, and, burning, and

āhārāḥ

foods

rājasasya

of the rājasic

iṣṭāḥ

desired

duḥkhaśokāmayapradāḥ

sorrow, and, grief, and, disease, give, thus

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

"Excessively" should be construed with all, thus: excessively bitter, excessively hot, etc.