The saas-bahu cereal

Aparna Pallavi took 20 years to understand Vidarbha’s culinary character. It lies in the staple

Breath test for B12

It detects vitamin B12 deficiency accurately, quickly

World Bank optimistic

Starving children

Bad fats

A study distinguishes the "bad" fats from their more harmless cousins

It's all in the food

Good nutrition matters even in the womb

Simulating mother's milk

How formula feed can be enriched with nutrients found in breast feed

Remember to have breakfast

Peeling touch

Government policy stops prevention of lifestyle diseases

Quantity mars quality

Nutrient value of fruits and vegetables is falling

Get on a diet coarse

A thousand flavours

The Burmese people are a great exponent of slow food

Food guide for diabetics

An app to measure nutrition content of Indian food

Nutrify India Now allows search in 17 languages and six food groups. Users can also search foods by nutrients in the National Institute of …

India’s new Food Composition Table provides data on nutritive value of 586 foods

The data in the book can help identify the crops that should be grown to fight micronutrient deficiency

Leguminous affair

Boiled, roasted or deep fried... explore the many culinary delights of fresh pigeon peas

Bitters for starters

A typical Bengali meal is eaten course by course. Kaushik Das Gupta shows how the tradition helps refine taste buds

Poshan Abhiyan scheme lags behind its target

The focus of the scheme was to reduce stunting in children aged between 0 and 6 years from 38.4 per cent to 25 per cent by 2022; but recent study …

A village desperate for nutrition

Flame that cools

Long-forgotten palash flower helps beat the heat, offers health benefits

Poor distribution

Food for oil

By giving up on traditional oils, we lose out on nutrition

What's cooking?

Unwrap the secret of health

Oriyas fight winters with a delicacy covered in turmeric leaves

Healthy fast food

Sahyadri tribals eat buckwheat to stay fit