A dimension within Traditional & Wild Foods
This theme discusses the practice of foraging for traditional and local forest foods, including mushrooms, as part of a local diet.
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We used to eat greens from the forest, including Madhuranga greens, Nautia greens, Marisa greens, and all those other types of greens.
— Sanjukta Arukh · Tamando, Khordha, Odisha
We, the people of the village, eat food like leafy vegetables, pulses, rice, etc.
— Ram Maravi · Dindori, Madhya Pradesh
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
Before, we used to eat saag roti, kurthi dal, urad dal, and mahua saag. Sometimes we would find amla and bael from the forest, and that's how we used to sustain our lives.
— Ram Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Our traditional food includes Koradi mushrooms, Silari greens, then Kakudi greens, and our Silari greens and mushroom greens.
— gobardhan pangi · Upperpur, Malkangiri, 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
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
We all fill our stomachs by eating Mahua saag roti, which is our favorite food. Mahua is obtained from trees in the forests, and we also eat roti with bathua saag, which is our favorite food item and is very nutritious.
— Ram Kumari
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
I remember we have been frying and eating Mahula, the food of the forest.
— Priti majhi
Yes, I remember we have been frying and eating mahua, the forest food.
— Priti majhi
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
When we talk about locally available food, our Kurudi mushrooms, along with Siali and Kendu, are all such forest foods.
— gobardhan pangi
Forest-derived food includes fresh bamboo shoots, bamboo sago, and Kendu fruit, among others. We obtain our food from the forest.
— S Guruteli · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha
They collect mushrooms and ghuhaar greens from the forests and prepare them as vegetables to eat, and within that same group.
— MANNOO LAL BHOI · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Our people still want to eat the old food and forest products that were cooked, whether by forest dwellers or Mughals.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha
We are the people of earlier times who used to eat mahua from the forest, eat chakad shak, eat millet bread, eat corn bread. Now people eat good food, and because they eat good food, they catch so many diseases.
— Sunita Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Ans - In ancient times, people used to bring tubers, leafy vegetables, fruits, and roots from the forest and eat them. They also ate boiled leafy vegetables. Village - Kutiguda Name - Devendra Madkami
— Champa Gatan · Pujariguda, Malkangiri, Odisha
From the forest, we collect ruguda mushrooms, mudhi saag, kuiler saag, girel flowers, bhindua kadi, and so on. If all these are nutritious foods for us, they should be included in the midday meal.
— RINA BEHERA · Hemagiri, Sundargarh, Odisha
Earlier, we used to eat gethi kanda, nekuwa kanda, sarai mahua lata, and all the mahua lata.
— Sunita Kumari · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
We used to gather forest products like mahua, cook them, make cakes, and eat them in the forest. Even now, we will learn from our ancestors.
— Gitanjali Bhoi · Karamdihi, Sundargarh, Odisha
From the forest, we also get many things as vegetables, such as
— Kekti Tekam
We Adivasi communities are communities that depend on nature, collect roots and tubers from the forests, and use them as food, which is very nutritious and also serves as medicine.
— Ram Kumari
We get various greens and various fruits from the forest.
— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha
Nutritious food found in the forest: Mudhi saga, Chhati saga, Bhadbhadia saga, Koila saga, Munga saga, Ghumi saga, Tartha saga.
— Parsuram Sa · Sundargarh, Odisha
From the forest, we get leafy vegetables, tubers, mushrooms, and fruits. All these kinds of things are available.
— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha
Our tribe lives in the forest, far from villages and cities, and for food, they eat mahua, dori, koyna, this street, etcetera, kola.
— bachcha lal · Shahganj, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Grains and other food items are included from the forest.
— Sunita Kumari
Our fathers and grandfathers were healthy and strong by eating plenty of nutritious food from the forest, such as Mahua, Tol, Bhadbhadiya Saag, Mamer Saag, Leper Saag, and Karadi.
— Paradeshi Mirdha · Sambalpur, Odisha
The edible items found in the forest are Kendu, Chaar, and Mahua, which
— Vijay Kumar bhardwaj · Kasdol, Baloda Bazar, Chhattisgarh
Grains, food, and foodstuffs are included from the forest.
— Sunita Kumari
Nutritious diet includes forest vegetables like Mocha Kolyar greens.
— Kachala Choudhary
Nutritious diet from the forest: seasonal fruits, jamun, mahua, mango, charoli, jaggery, peanuts, and Shegaon vegetables.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Yes, it is food eaten in the forest, which we include as food. Oh oh.
— Rakesh kumar Kumar
We were eating Mahul, greens, and temple-prepared food, and our health was good. Now, eating this will be good.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
We get various types of fruits and roots from the forest.
— Laba Kumar sabar · Bada Baridi, Rayagada, Odisha
When guests come to your house during festivals, what items do you bring from the forest to use in food? For example, we bring 'koldi' and use it to eat, and we also bring a lot of greens, like 'saag ghasara', and use them to eat.
— Santosh Pradhan
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
In the past, we used to eat mahua, and also made four laddus by frying mahua. We would also cook rice with gulgi and eat it. Now, if Anganwadi...
— Anjana Khadia · Sundargarh, Odisha
The traditional dishes are our corn, moong, black gram, horse gram, and our moong, and jana, etc. All these.
— S Guruteli · Upperpur, Malkangiri, Odisha
