A dimension within Traditional Forest Foods
This theme highlights the nutritional value and health benefits of mahua and mahul as traditional foods.
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Mahua oil has vitamins and if you make and eat Mahua ladoo, the body remains healthy and good.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
We have found Mahua. In ancient times, people used to boil and eat Lukra Mahua, and they used to get vitamins. In this era, if Mahua is eaten, the body remains healthy.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua has good vitamins; it will be beneficial if eaten after cooking.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
Mahua has many vitamins. We eat mahua by boiling it or by making cakes from it.
— Gitanjali Bhoi
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
There are vitamins in mahua. It tastes good if you make and eat idli from mahua.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · 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
Mahua was available in our area. We used to say that eating boiled mahua keeps the body healthy. Even now, if consumed after boiling, the body remains good.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Eating boiled Mahul (mahua flowers) or ladoos made from them will keep your body healthy and cure anemia.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
We used to eat Mahua before, all kinds of Mahua, Rama Mahua. Because we ate all that, our body used to stay well. If you eat that, you too will stay well again.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua has vitamins. People used to eat it boiled before, and it would be good to eat it boiled now.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · 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
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
Eating Mahua flowers kept health good.
— Anjana Khadia · Subdega, 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 is one of the most nutritious food items, which is very beneficial for our health. Along with this, coarse grains (millets) are also beneficial for health. They should be included. PDS.
— संगीता मीणा · Metali, Dungarpur, Rajasthan
If Mahua is added to our food, it will provide vitamins.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Consuming Mahua dolly fruit oil is beneficial for the body.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
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
We were eating Mahul, greens, and temple-prepared food, and our health was good. Now, eating this will be good.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
Eating Mahua-based sweets like laddu, bhaja, kako, and latha cake, by children, guests, and oneself, will maintain good mental and physical health.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
Regarding certain points, this is the good health one achieves by consuming Mahua oil.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
When we used to prepare and eat food with Mahula, we stayed healthy. We should still eat it now.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
Thukwa is made from mahua and flour. It is very delicious to eat, beneficial, and always keeps one healthy.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
In ancient times, people used to boil and eat Mahua, but it is not seen much nowadays. If people still boil and eat it, their bodies will remain healthy.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua flowers and other foods obtained from the forest are very nutritious. Therefore, it is appropriate to include these foods in PDS or mid-day meals.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua contains good vitamins. If prepared with Mahua, what should be cooked? Thinking of eating.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
The Mahua from our forest is very rich in vitamins and is given to children as food for their nourishment.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahua is found in the forest, it is a very vitamin-rich food, it would be good to give this to children.
— Laxmi Bagh · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha
Mahul, char, and sargi have a lot of vitamins. Our bodies used to stay healthy by eating them. It would be good if the government provides food to students.
— Laxmi Bagh · 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
Eating Mahua fruit is our medicine.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Mahul is found in the forest. If pitha made from mahul is given to children, their mental and physical health will remain good.
— Laxmi Bagh · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
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
Honey has vitamins. If Mahula is used to make Laddus or cakes, everyone will eat them.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
Including ladoos made from Mahua, a food found in our forests, in the school's mid-day meal will be nutritious for children.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
We get our nutritious diet from the forest, such as Mahua fruit Doli oil in the form of fat, Kodo, Bhaddi, Kulthia, Mahua flowers, Jamun, Mahua kheer, Bhaji, etc.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
If the nutritious 'char laddoo' made from Mahua found in our forests is included in the school's mid-day meal, children will be nourished.
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
