A dimension within Healthy Local Foods
This theme focuses on the importance of incorporating fruits, vegetables, and healthy foods into one's diet for overall health.
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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
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
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
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
Pulses, millet, grains, and green leafy vegetables
— Maya kumari Damor
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
Here, dal rice, green vegetables, egg, and fish are among the most nutritious foods.
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Promoting beans, fruits, and leafy vegetables
— Sunita Kumari
Promote beans, fruit, and leafy vegetables.
— Sunita Kumari
Green leafy vegetables and fruits should be consumed.
— Sunita Kumari
One should consume leafy vegetables and fruits.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Nutritious diet includes forest vegetables like Mocha Kolyar greens.
— Kachala Choudhary
Consuming Karela, Kotla, Sribala, Khadbus, and Dhavda provides many different benefits to our body.
— 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
Papaya vegetable and pigeon pea lentil (toor dal) with soybean vegetable are very good and healthy for our health.
— Chanda
Every fruit, flower, leaf, tuber, and leafy vegetable obtained from nature contains sufficient nutrients, so these should be included.
— Paradeshi Mirdha · Rengali, Sambalpur, Odisha
The greens and spinach from the field, this food gives strength to our body.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Wheat, moong, millet, and corn – all these foods should be given because they contain a large amount of vitamins.
— Anirudha Marai · Sambalpur, Odisha
Lentils, rice, bread, milk, yogurt, then we will be healthy.
— deena rawat · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
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
Kolyar bhaji is considered nutritious.
— Kachala Choudhary
It is true that bringing vegetables and leafy greens from the forest provides nutritious food for a growing body.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
To keep children healthy, pigeon pea lentils and a good amount of spinach.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Kulhar's vegetables are very good for the body.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Pulses, eggs, sattu, fruits, millets, corn, and milk are necessary. Good nutritious food is essential for overall development and promotes body growth by creating new cells.
— Naukeshi Sahu
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
The most nutritious diet is soybean and spinach pigeon pea lentil.
— Chanda
If the government pays attention to nutritious food, it should focus on pulses, sesame, urad dal, and similar items, so that proper nutrition can be obtained.
— Ranu begam · Pamgarh, Janjgir-Champa, Chhattisgarh
Fanjan greens, Panjaniyaan greens, and Vochhateen greens from the forest are beneficial for the body.
— 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
By cultivating Raala, Bhaadi, Boti, Kutki, they should be included in children's nutritious diet.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Our milk, lentils, soybeans, and bread all come under nutritious food. They contain protein.
— Chanda · SKIP NO LOCATION
Eating Dhawda Dig Semaliya Gondi vegetable is very good for us.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Nutritious diet from the forest: seasonal fruits, jamun, mahua, mango, charoli, jaggery, peanuts, and Shegaon vegetables.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
It is necessary to include a lot of green and leafy vegetables, fruits, eggs, and fish.
— Sunita Kumari
The government should promote the most nutritious foods easily available in our region, such as kodo, kutki, maize, along with tur dal, gram, and horse gram lentils, and include them in PDS and mid-day meals.
— Rupesh Maravi · Mandla, Madhya Pradesh
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
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
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