Healthy Eating & Plants

Pulses, vegetables, sweet potato, and cassava are beneficial.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Lentils, vegetables, sweet potato, and cassava are beneficial.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Consuming Karela, Kotla, Sribala, Khadbus, and Dhavda provides many different benefits to our body.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Eating Dhawda Dig Semaliya Gondi vegetable is very good for us.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

This is nutritious food. Papaya vegetable, spinach greens, and drumstick vegetable are excellent. This will keep children healthy and strong.

— Chanda · Baghauri, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

One should include Kuri, Bajri, Kodra, Bati, and Maal in vegetarian food items because they are natural remedies and beneficial for the body's health.

— संगीता मीणा · Dachki Jaswantpura, Dungarpur, Rajasthan

Kulhar's vegetables are very good for the body.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

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

The drumstick plant is beneficial for us.

— Sunita Kumari

The greens and spinach from the field, this food gives strength to our body.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Papaya vegetable and pigeon pea lentil (toor dal) with soybean vegetable are very good and healthy for our health.

— Chanda

Kolyar bhaji is considered nutritious.

— Kachala Choudhary

Fanjan greens, Panjaniyaan greens, and Vochhateen greens from the forest are beneficial for the body.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Nutritious diet includes forest vegetables like Mocha Kolyar greens.

— Kachala Choudhary

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

The most nutritious local food items to be included in PDS and Mid-Day Meal are pulses, as they are an excellent source of protein, fiber, and essential minerals. Additionally, leafy green vegetables like spinach, and local seasonal fruits like guava, berries, and dates should also be included as they are rich in vitamins.

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Eating Temda fruit is very beneficial.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

We were eating Mahul, greens, and temple-prepared food, and our health was good. Now, eating this will be good.

— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha

It is true that bringing vegetables and leafy greens from the forest provides nutritious food for a growing body.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Herbs from the jungle are very beneficial for our body.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

People in the village bring herbs from the jungle and eat them for their health, which is very beneficial or advantageous.

— Ram Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh

Pulses, millet, grains, and green leafy vegetables

— Maya kumari Damor

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

Every fruit, flower, leaf, tuber, and leafy vegetable obtained from nature contains sufficient nutrients, so these should be included.

— Paradeshi Mirdha · Rengali, Sambalpur, Odisha

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

— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand

Kolhar vegetable is more nutritious.

— Kachala Choudhary

Eating charoli seeds has many benefits.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Let's cultivate and eat barnyard millet, little millet, and wheat. They contain vitamins, and the body will remain healthy.

— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha

Promoting beans, fruits, and leafy vegetables

— Sunita Kumari

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

Green leafy vegetables and fruits should be consumed.

— Sunita Kumari

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

In our village, the hukli bhaji and phinda (local vegetables) that are gathered, we should use whatever God has provided us to eat from them for nutrition to combat malnutrition.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

The most nutritious forest foods are Kolyar Bhaji, Mokha Ki Bhaji, Segwa, etc.

— Kachala Choudhary

Promote beans, fruit, and leafy vegetables.

— Sunita Kumari

In our forest, fruits, roots, leaves, flowers, and leafy vegetables grow naturally. There are no chemicals in them, and they are completely nutritious. It would be good to serve them for lunch.

— Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, Odisha

One should consume leafy vegetables and fruits.

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Moong bari and that chaat is beneficial.

— Gitanjali Bhoi

Kantola vegetable, which is very nutritious, is found in the forest of our village. It should be included and promoted in nutritional diets.

— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Drumstick vegetable, ridge gourd vegetable, bitter gourd vegetable, and goat's milk are nutritious food for our children, all of which we provide considering our economic situation for our children's benefit.

— Chanda