Often the quality of a food is determined from its nature- whether it is a vegetarian food obtained from plant sources or a non-vegetarian food obtained from animal products. From this, emerges the concept of sattvic, which further categorizes foods based on their goodness and purity. This gives rise to the sattvic lifestyle, a lifestyle form existing since ancient times which is making a comeback and is an emerging trend of lifestyle among the current generation. In several scriptures and sacred texts sattvic lifestyle has been mentioned.
Modern literature refers sattvic diet as a yogic diet.
