This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Foods that increase length of life, clarity of being, strength, health, happiness, and contentment, foods that are savoury and rich in flavour, oily, sustaining and long-lasting in the body, and pleasing to the heart, are the foods dear to a person of sattva.

For one endowed with the quality of sattva, sattvic foods are dear. And sattvic foods increase length of life, and again increase sattva. Sattva is the inner organ; here, by the word 'sattva', knowledge, the effect of the inner organ, is meant, since it is said, in 'from sattva is born knowledge', that sattva is the cause of the growth of knowledge; and sattvic food too is a cause of the growth of knowledge. Likewise they increase strength and health, and increase happiness and contentment; at the time of their ripening they are themselves the increasers of happiness, and they increase contentment by way of the beginning of action that is the cause of contentment. Savoury, joined with a sweet taste; oily, joined with unction; sustaining, of lasting transformation; pleasing to the heart, of a delightful look; foods made of sattva, of such a kind, are dear to the sattvic man.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

'Liking' (priti) is what comes without an interval. 'Pleasingness' lies in the sight of them. 'Firm' foods are those that do not become ripe at once, like clarified butter and the rest.