Goodness of the unpolished

The popularity of polished white rice has killed the red and black varieties that have medicinal properties. A few Tamil Nadu farmers are …

High on nectar

Demand for neera, the fresh sap of young coconut flowers, is rising with advances in food preservation technologies. It's time Kerala stopped …

Become iron woman, eat veggies

As government fails to tackle anaemia, NGOs in Maharashtra help women increase haemoglobin by raising kitchen gardens

What is rice fortification? Does India really need this Rs 2,700 crore per annum scheme?

There is more to food and nourishment than just rice

Happy Independence Day

State of Food and Nutrition: Burden of poor diet

Globally, over 3,000 million people could not afford a healthy diet in 2020. Of them, 31.7%—or over 973 million—were in India

Food and healthcare in war-torn Tigray: preliminary insights on what’s at stake

The war has put 4.5 million people, half of whom are children, in need of emergency food assistance

World needs to produce 3 times more fruits, vegetables than current levels

World is producing more cereals than fruits, vegetables than needed to meet populatons' nutrition needs; this has consequnces for land and ecosystem

High on health, low on popularity

The Phalsa fruit is available for only a few weeks in a year. Yet, it's sweet and sour taste will leave you asking for more

Food safari in deserts of Rajasthan

Down To Earth travels to Rajasthan to find out about the traditional food habits of desert people. On this journey, we discovered that not-so-…

Grow your own herbs: Edible Routes

Edible Routes organised a workshop in New Delhi, where they explained and taught participants how to grow herbs and have your own kitchen garden. …

You say tomato… why some fruits are forever doomed to be called veggies

When botany and linguistics collide: pumpkins are fruits and there's technically no such thing as a vegetable. But try telling that to a five-year-…

Beyond spice

Curry leaf is a common spice in south Indian recipes but few people outside the region know what else to do with it

Experts demand regulator for nutrition institutes

Standard training would ensure nutritionists prescribe diets suited to Indians, and not those set by western countries

Taste of sting

Shalini Dhyani shares the many virtues of Himalayan giant nettle, called bichhu ghas

Power packed green

Leafy vegetable that is a great substitute for spinach

Whether to boil, steam or fry

Fight over non-existent biscuits

Free the polyphenols

Gut factor

Why people in the West are more prone to allergies?

Why UNICEF wants to raise $255 million this year for eastern, southern Africa

The additional funds will support children with adequate, life-saving nutrition services

A taste of mountains

Jakhiya seeds are used for tempering almost all types of vegetables and curries in the Garhwal region

2.9 mln TB cases go unreported

A third of the unaccounted for cases are in India, where private hospitals rarely report TB

WHO OWNS OUR VEGGIES?

The patenting of a broccoli developed through conventional breeding in Europe is a disturbing trend since it violates the law on plant life

Thin on facts

High sales pitch of Saffola’s ‘healthier’ rice relies on unproven data