A dimension within Traditional Mahua Diet
This cluster discusses the integration of mahua and mahul into daily cooking and eating for personal health and nutrition.
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If I prepare and eat mahul, it will be good.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
My love, it will be good if the Mahul is cooked and eaten now.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
I will be able to cook Mahul and eat it, and also eat it fried. I will be able to give it to someone to make, and I will be able to drink it with betel leaf.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Our Mahul will be available. Eating this vegetable, including its raw roots, after cooking is good for the body. Eating it fully cooked is also good. Eating raw vegetables is also good.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua contains good vitamins. If prepared with Mahua, what should be cooked? Thinking of eating.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua has good vitamins; it will be beneficial if eaten after cooking.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
Mahua has vitamins. People used to eat it boiled before, and it would be good to eat it boiled now.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
There are vitamins in mahua. It tastes good if you make and eat idli from mahua.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We were eating Mahul, greens, and temple-prepared food, and our health was good. Now, eating this will be good.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
News is that Mahua will be available, and Mahua has a lot of vitamins. If you make cake or ladoo from Mahua, eat it.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua has many vitamins. We eat mahua by boiling it or by making cakes from it.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
If Mahua is added to our food, it will provide vitamins.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
If you prepare and eat kakara, latha, bhaja, ladu, and kake made from Mahul, your mental and physical health will remain good.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
It would be good if food made from Mahua (Mahula) was given in our schools.
— Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Eating boiled Mahul (mahua flowers) or ladoos made from them will keep your body healthy and cure anemia.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahul is a forest product that people used to boil and eat in ancient times. It would still be good to boil and eat it, or it could also be sold by making it into packets or laddus.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua is available in Amara. Previously, mahua cakes were cooked and eaten. It would be good to cook and eat them now too. Your body will remain healthy.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
In ancient times, people used to boil and eat Mahua. Mahua has many vitamins and is nutritious food. It would be good if it was given in schools.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
In the past, people used to boil and eat mahua from the village, which contained vitamins. Even now, if mahua is boiled and eaten, it will still be beneficial.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahul was available. Mahul was consumed. If it could be provided adequately, all of us, including the children, would get nutritious food. Therefore, this is a matter to pay attention to.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
We used to boil mahua and eat its cooked flowers, and our health remained good. Even now, if we could prepare and eat it, we would be healthy.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
Among forest products, Mahua is also a nutritious food. It would be good if the government utilizes this Mahua in various ways and provides it in school mid-day meals.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua-made food
— Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
In our school, in the mid-day meal that is provided, if we bring a beneficial extract from our forest and add those seeds, I will prepare it so that it contains many vitamin-rich things, and eating that would be very good.
— Parikshit Majhi
Mahua oil has vitamins and if you make and eat Mahua ladoo, the body remains healthy and good.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
It would be good if food prepared with Kendu, Amla, Char, and Mahul is given to school children.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
We were eating cooked Mahul.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua is a forest product. In the olden days, people used to boil and eat it. Even now, if boiled and eaten, it would be good, or if made into laddus and sold, it would sell.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahura has vitamins. Everyone can eat Mahura by making ladoo or cake.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua fruit/extract contains vitamins. It would be beneficial if given to school children to eat and if one also consumes it.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
The government is giving new things to eat in MDH, which means that if we add some of our forest-based foods, like fried items (such as fried ridge gourd, fried wild yam), and also add greens and lentils, it would be good.
— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha
I want to bring back our old food, which is Mahula and Kakua. That will benefit us greatly.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
It would be good to provide nutritious food like finger millet in meals.
— PRADEEP KUMAR KANHAR · Boudh, Odisha
When we used to prepare and eat food with Mahula, we stayed healthy. We should still eat it now.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
If school children are given boiled and fried Mahul, and Kaku mixed in water to eat, it contains vitamins.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Honey has vitamins. If Mahula is used to make Laddus or cakes, everyone will eat them.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahul, Mahul, it was very good and rich in vitamins. We eat wild potatoes, Mahul Mudi curry, Mahul vegetable curry, Mahul CG curry, Mahul Latha Kuti curry, and Mahul Latha vegetable curry.
— Laxmi Bagh · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
If mahua is provided in PDS as laddus made from Etia Chakuna, then nutritious food can be obtained, and it can be good for the elderly or like milk porridge.
— Laxmi
It would be appropriate if forest products like Mahua ladoo are prepared and served as part of the Mid-Day Meal in schools.
— Priti majhi
If food made from Mahua is given in schools, children will be able to get nutritious food.
— Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
