Natural Skin & Diet

Mahua oil has vitamins and if you make and eat Mahua ladoo, the body remains healthy and good.

— Gitanjali Bhoi

The drumstick plant is beneficial for us.

— Sunita Kumari

Oil is extracted from Mahua seeds. This oil is a little bitter.

— Kekti Tekam

Moong and Urad seeds are valuable to us.

— Chitta Ranjan Sahu · Malakanagiri, Malkangiri, Odisha

Eating Mahua fruit is our medicine.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Mahua Dolly oil should be fed as fat.

— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

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 get treatment from the forest.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Mahula is available in our area. We have a lot of Mahula, even for pimples, Mahula is present. If we make cakes or chocolates and give them to children, they will be able to eat nutritious food.

— Benedik Dungdung · Sundargarh, Odisha

We are doing that which we are, my Jhunuga, black gram, Kulu oil. While Jhunuga, this is black gram, and we are doing this, and then do that.

— Ulapi Sahu · Balangir, Odisha

Moringa plant

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Moringa plant

— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Moringa plant

— Sunita Kumari

Traditional medicine

— KRUSHNA KHILLO · Semiliguda, Koraput, Odisha

Traditional medicine

— KRUSHNA KHILLO

The Mahua from our forest is very rich in vitamins and is given to children as food for their nourishment.

— 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

Mahua has many vitamins. We eat mahua by boiling it or by making cakes from it.

— Gitanjali Bhoi

Our precious seed jowar, urad

— Kachala Choudhary

Drumstick cultivation

— Vinita Singh Yadav · Dharura, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh

Sal seeds and Mahua seeds are used for selling.

— Kekti Tekam

Herbs from the jungle are very beneficial for our body.

— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh

Eating Mahua flowers kept health good.

— Anjana Khadia · Subdega, Sundargarh, Odisha

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

For my cotton, there is a strip of mam oil. For Patna food, there is a strip mark. There is one pill.

— Puja

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

There are vitamins in mahua. It tastes good if you make and eat idli from mahua.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

In our region, even without rain, we cultivate crops like moong, urad, and horse gram. We also preserve their seeds by mixing them with neem leaves.

— Kunakanta Behera · Dashapalla, Nayagarh, Odisha

If Mahua is added to our food, it will provide vitamins.

— Gitanjali Bhoi · Sundargarh, Odisha

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 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