Miryai Mt Fivefold Food Theory
Gnostic Teachings of Miryai Mt.
In the Living Gods, Let the hallowed Light of Transcendant Truth be praised. Let the Sweet Mystery of Miryai awaken in the heart of hearts.

Living Fire, Living Water, Living Light, Living Wind and Living Zephyr groups of foods from Miryai Mt. do not equate with the Earth, Water, Fire, Wood and Metal elements of Chinese Food Theory that so heavily influenced the vegan cooking styles of Japan and Korea. The Miryai grouping are based on modern botanical knowledge rooted in dna sequencing and not simple color or taste like the Chinese model. Some of the five fold grouping of food related items on Miryai is as follows:
 

• 5 types: vines, beans, nightshades,brassicas, grains
• 5 colors: red, orange/brown, yellow/white, green, blue/purple/black
• 5 tastes: sweet, sour, salty, savory, spicy
• 5  states: raw, dehydrated, frozen, juiced, fermented
• 5 preps: soaked, ground, blended, chopped, torn, grated
• 5 cooking: steamed, baked, grilled, sautéed, souped
• 5 condiments: sweet(maple, stevia), sour(lemon, vinegar), salty( tamari), hot(sir racha, wasabi, mustard), savory(shiitake)
• 5 meal times: 6,9,12,3,6
• 5 presentations: wrapped (sandwich, lettuce wrap, rollup), bowl, plate, liquefied, finger-food
• 5 seasons: spring greens, summer fruit, fall harvest, winter greens, late winter tubers
• 5 utensils: spoon, fork, chopsticks, fingers, straw
• 5 drinks: stimulants( tea, coffee), juice, water, alcohol(beer, wine), plant milks
• 5 fasts: dark moon, sabbath, xenophagy, lent/ramadan, intermittent
• 5 feasts: weekly habshaba, full moon, jubilee, new moon, new year
• 5 preservations: drying, bottling, pickling/fermenting, freezing, refrigerating
• 5 textures: hard/crunchy, mushy/soft, slimy/sticky, chewy, stringy/stretchy/ foamy
• 5 temps: frozen, chilled, room temp, warm, hot
• 5 hot tastes: cayenne, horseradish, mustard, pepper, allium
• 5 sweets: maple, cane sugar, beet sugar, stevia, malt
• 5 trees: nut, pome, citrus, stone, spice

On Miryai the five Ziwaneh are not really planetary energies or tastes, but modes of becoming:
 

• Fire(=Earth).....diminishing/falling; saturn..............yellow(tan)
• Water.......stable. Mercury........ ......black
• Light (=Fire).....expanding/flourishing; mars........ ....red
• Wind (=Wood).... growing/rising; jupiter.............green/blue
• Zephyr (=Metal/gold).......contracting/storing;  venus............white