 However, these terms are relative; "yangness" or "yinness" is only discussed in relation to other foods.Brown rice and other whole grains such as barley, millet, oats, quinoa, spelt, rye, and teff are considered by macrobiotics to be the foods in which yin and yang are closest to being in balance.Therefore, lists of macrobiotic foods that determine a food as yin or yang generally compare them to whole grains.