Healthy Local Nutrition

The traditional dishes are our corn, moong, black gram, horse gram, and our moong, and jana, etc. All these.

— S Guruteli · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha

Moringa, rice and Chironji nuts, mango pickle, local rice, etc.

— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Pulses, millet, grains, and green leafy vegetables

— Maya kumari Damor

Our traditional food includes Koradi mushrooms, Silari greens, then Kakudi greens, and our Silari greens and mushroom greens.

— gobardhan pangi · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha

Traditional food

— Sudhakar Pradhan · Gandhinagar, Rayagada, Odisha

Locally available food items that can be included as nutritious meals. Such as Tikhur, Kanda, Chironji, and Amla preserve.

— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh

Our traditional items are finger millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, black gram, paddy, all these are ours. Then there's black gram, pigeon pea, and all these things.

— gobardhan pangi · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha

We, the people of the village, eat food like leafy vegetables, pulses, rice, etc.

— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh

Rice, lentils, fruit, flowers, etc.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Traditional food Janana, Gango, Kandala, Sua, Muka, Subua, Guru Medukila. Now, all these things.

— Abhimaneu Sabar

Food, festival, traditional agriculture, traditional medicine etc

— KRUSHNA KHILLO · Semiliguda, Koraput, 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

We have traditional varieties: our native rice, ragi, tuana, jhudunga, palat biri, and our kangu tuana.

— gobardhan pangi · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha

Our traditional food was powdered sag, jhadada sag, and ragi. We used to make sag from rice powder and eat it. Forest products like mushroom also need to be eaten in the same way. Health will be good.

— jitendra khila · kudumulugumma, Malkangiri, Odisha

This is our rice, ragi, black gram, and horse gram for our family.

— Gourang Adhikari · Udulibeda, Malkangiri, Odisha

We are from the tribal community, and our main food items are rice, peja (gruel/porridge), bhaji (greens/vegetables), kodo (millet), kutki (millet).

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Finger millet, black gram, green gram, etc.

— Abhimaneu Sabar

rice, lentils, flower, flower, etc.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Horse gram, finger millet, Dumer, and a decoction made from the residue. Groundnut, corn. During festivals, Arisa, Kakara, Mada, and Ukhara (traditional Odia sweets and snacks) are made.

— Anirudha Marai

In our region, seasonal produce such as grains, pulses, spinach, and green leafy vegetables have been part of our diet, which promotes nutrition, good digestion, and immunity.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Ragi, Foxtail Millet, Moong

— srinu salbam · MPV 54, Malkangiri, Odisha

Here, dal rice, green vegetables, egg, and fish are among the most nutritious foods.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

The main food of the tribal community includes things like little millet, which provides them with nutritious food. They mostly cultivate maize, whose porridge...

— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Native red rice, toor dal

— Kachala Choudhary

Nutritious diet from the forest: seasonal fruits, jamun, mahua, mango, charoli, jaggery, peanuts, and Shegaon vegetables.

— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

To provide food to our ancestors, we serve them our traditional food preparations like ragi gruel, millet rice, etc.

— jitendra khila · Lachery, Malkangiri, Odisha

Chickpea and mustard chutney and corn bread are our favorite foods, which are prepared without fertilizer. Mahua bread is also eaten in our homes; mahua is the flower of a tree found in the forest. We eat it with great love, and it is also nutritious. This keeps our body healthy.

— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Look, millet is our favorite food. And from that millet, we prepare about seven to eight types of dishes. It is very good for our body.

— jitendra khila · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha

Brundabati Saraf Most nutritious food - Millet, Maize, Gurji rice

— JAMUNA PRADHANI JAMUNA · Balangir, Odisha

We belong to the tribal community whose main food is rice, pez (porridge), bhaji (greens), kodo (millet), kutki (millet).

— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Daimati Pradhani Millet and Kodo rice

— JAMUNA PRADHANI JAMUNA · Titlagarh, Balangir, Odisha

Daimati Pradhani Millet and Kodo rice

— JAMUNA PRADHANI JAMUNA · Titlagarh, Balangir, Odisha

For our family, grains like Mandia, Kangu, Biri, Sua, etc., are valuable. This is my traditional food. We have been consuming these foods for a long time. Thank you.

— gobardhan pangi

Name - Madhab Majhi. In our region, a large amount of ragi, arhar, moong, and kodo millet are cultivated from the forest. It can be used as nutritious food or in the form of PDS (Public Distribution System).

— Prabhasini Batkar

We save stable seeds and kuluth seeds are valuable for our family. We have old seeds like millet, kuluth, moong. We sell them and use them as food.

— Basanti · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha

We are from the village. Our main diet includes leafy greens, roti, vegetables, dal, and rice, which we consume a lot.

— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Nutritious food found in the forest: Mudhi saga, Chhati saga, Bhadbhadia saga, Koila saga, Munga saga, Ghumi saga, Tartha saga.

— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha

barley, jujube, peas, chickpeas, red lentils, bhatura, flaxseed, kodo millet, mijri

— arun raja · Kon, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Grains and other food items are included from the forest.

— Sunita Kumari

During festivals and auspicious occasions, we offer things to our guests. I bring some items from the shop, and along with that, we also give traditional foods prepared at home, such as rice, millet gruel, etc., to our guests.

— gobardhan pangi