Oil

You can use the seeds that provide oil. For instance, in the place of groundnut oil, you can grind groundnut seeds and use the powder. Similarly, you can use coconut. They are not harmful.

The Seven Flavourings

There are seven flavorings. They are salt, oil, ghee, sweet, sour, hot and spices. Any variety of food preparation springs out of these seven basic flavors. Without these seven there is no taste, but without these seven there are no diseases either. From these seven flavorings spring an infinite number of diseases.

To please our taste buds, we distort the natural food provided by God. The diseases in our body are directly proportionate to the quantity of these seven tastes. When you give up these seven, you have conquered the whole world. You can eat happily. You can live and let others around you live happily. 

Now let us look at the substitutes to the harmful seven tastes: