Prabhupada: Now recently I have got one news from one German scientist. His name...
Tamala Krsna: Von Braun.
Prabhupada: Von Braun. He is comparing there is God. He is scientist. He is thinking like us exactly. He is a very well known scientist, German scientist, Von Braun. Yes.
Bernard Manischewitz: I have some questions.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Bernard Manischewitz: You know I'm in the food business, so my first question deals with my food business. I'm familiar with the Krsna cookbook - I've read the recipes - but I do not see any suggested menus or nutritional information, and I'm wondering if there's any thought that's been worked on that. Is there any background of menus or nutritional information?
Prabhupada: Yes. Nutritional information means that we require for balance food: starch, carbohydrate, protein, fat. What else? Starch, carbohydrate, protein, fat. These are necessary nutrition, but these things are there in vegetable diet. Rice, starch; wheat, protein; dal, protein; then vegetable, carbohydrate; and milk, fat. So if we take food and test it within these four, five groups... Eat according to our conception, sattvika. Sattvika means foodstuff in goodness. There are three qualities in the material world - goodness, passion and ignorance. So they are described: these are goodness foods, these are passion, these are ignorance. So these items: rice, wheat, vegetables, dal and milk is sufficient for nutrition. Above that, you take little fruit, it is very good. And in India this foodstuff is taken by the learned circle - brahmanas, ksatriyas - and they keep very good health, very good life.