Daniel 10:3

“I ate no pleasant bread, etc.] Or, “bread of desires”f459; such as was made of the finest of the wheat, and was eaten in the courts of princes where Daniel was: according to some Jewish Rabbins in Ben Melech, hot bread is meant; but in general it means the best of bread, such as had good qualities to make it desirable; and this Daniel refrained from, while he was humbling and afflicting himself on this sorrowful occasion, but ate coarse bread, black and grainy: neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth; not delicate meat, as of fish, fowl, deer, and the like, as Saadiah observes; but contented himself with meaner fare; nor did he drink generous wine, as he had used to do, living in a king’s…”

“no pleasant bread--"unleavened bread, even the bread of affliction" (Deu 16:3). anoint--The Persians largely used unguents.”

“I ate no pleasant bread - Margin, “bread of desires.” So the Hebrew. The meaning is, that he abstained from ordinary food, and partook of that only which was coarse and disagreeable. Neither came flesh nor wine in my mouth - That is, he lived on bread or vegetables. It is not to be inferred from this that Daniel ordinarily made use of wine, for it would seem from Daniel 1:0: that that was not his custom. What would appear from this passage would be, that he practiced on this occasion the most rigid abstinence. Neither did I anoint myself - The use of unguents was common in the East (see the notes at Matthew 6:17), and Daniel here says that he abstained during these three weeks from what he…”

“I ate: Dan 6:18; Isa 24:6-11; Co1 9:27 pleasant bread: Heb. bread of desires, Dan 11:8; Job 33:20; Amo 5:11; Nah 2:9 \*marg. neither did: Sa2 19:24; Mat 6:17 Daniel 10:4”