Especially important for Melancholics and those with Black Bile aggravation is how meat and other foods are cooked and prepared. Meat is best stewed or boiled in soups; grilling is acceptable, but meat and other foods should never be fried, especially never deep fried, which makes it practically indigestible to the delicate Melancholic digestion. Also, frying generates a lot of rancidity, oxidation and free radicals, which generate or aggravate morbid charred or oxidized forms of Black Bile.