Non- veg food includes all types of animal meat, fish, eggs, chicken and birds. The notion of non-veg foods can be found in Indian cuisine, where the non – veg dishes are categorized into eight sections - the animal or bird meat (chicken bhuna or karahi chicken), the animals living in burrows, the animals inhabiting marshland, the aquatic animals (and fishes), the birds moving in water (ducks), the animals living in dryland forests (e.g. gosht, korma) and the pecker birds.
The book by ayurvedic expert Charaka states meat soup promotes strength but he has given multiple guidelines for eating non-veg and also a checklist of what not to eat every day which is based on the constitution or body type of a person.