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Bihar schoolkids to grow organic vegetables, fruits for their mid-day meals
Increasing nutritional content in food, spreading awareness about organic farming and increasing greenery are the reasons behind engaging students. Photo: Getty Images
After a successful pilot project, 20,000 schools will now be given Rs 5,000 each and asked …
September 13, 2019
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Mushroom papads, jams, cakes to soon hit markets to push production
Mushrooms are known to have immense food value, medicinal flowers and are a good source of Vitamin D, proteins, minerals and anti-oxidants. Photo: Getty Images
This is an effort to popularise it so people don’t consider it a non-vegetarian food …
September 11, 2019
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Every 9th person in the world went hungry last year: UN report
Food insecurity can be described as lack of regular access to nutritious and sufficient food. Photo: Getty Images
Around 700 million were exposed to severe food insecurity in 2018
July 16, 2019
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Finding ways to fight obesity? Coffee could be your fix
The anti-obesity effect of these food products is based on their fat generating ability. Photo: Getty Images
A research finds that coffee helps burn brown fat and has anti-obesity characteristics
June 26, 2019
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Sikya Kheer: A recipe from the Baiga tribes of Madhya Pradesh, made with wild crabgrass

Sikiya (Digitaria Sanguilanis) is a variety of wild millet harvested by the Baiga tribals of Dindori district in Madhya Pradesh. Its grains are even smaller than those of little millets and has a yellowish colour. The Baiga tribals prepare rice and kheer out of it.Currently, the Indian Institute of Millets Research (IIMR) based in Hyderabad is researching on Sikiya for nutritional analysis. This crabgrass finger millet, which has always been a part of tribal culture, has 12 per cent protein.
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