A dimension within Healthy Eating & Local Produce
Emphasizing the importance of fruits and vegetables in a healthy diet for optimal nutrition.
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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
Pulses, millet, grains, and green leafy vegetables
— Maya kumari Damor
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
Here, dal rice, green vegetables, egg, and fish are among the most nutritious foods.
— Jagannath Baraik · Lapung, Ranchi, Jharkhand
Pulses, vegetables, sweet potato, and cassava are beneficial.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Promoting beans, fruits, and leafy vegetables
— Sunita Kumari
Lentils, vegetables, sweet potato, and cassava are beneficial.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
Green leafy vegetables and fruits should be consumed.
— Sunita Kumari
Promote beans, fruit, and leafy vegetables.
— Sunita Kumari
One should consume leafy vegetables and fruits.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, 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
Nutritious diet includes forest vegetables like Mocha Kolyar greens.
— Kachala Choudhary
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
The greens and spinach from the field, this food gives strength to our body.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
The most nutritious diet is soybean and spinach pigeon pea lentil.
— Chanda
Papaya vegetable and pigeon pea lentil (toor dal) with soybean vegetable are very good and healthy for our health.
— Chanda
It is necessary to include a lot of green and leafy vegetables, fruits, eggs, and fish.
— Sunita Kumari
Nutritious diet from the forest: seasonal fruits, jamun, mahua, mango, charoli, jaggery, peanuts, and Shegaon vegetables.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya 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
Consuming Karela, Kotla, Sribala, Khadbus, and Dhavda provides many different benefits to our body.
— Devisingh Solanki · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
The most nutritious forest foods are Kolyar Bhaji, Mokha Ki Bhaji, Segwa, etc.
— 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
Say, this is done now. Among the most nutritious seasonal and local foods available locally are green leafy vegetables like spinach, moringa, fruits like bananas, pulses, and soap
— Maya kumari Damor
To keep children healthy, pigeon pea lentils and a good amount of spinach.
— Chanda · Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
The most nutritious food is chickpea greens and spinach greens.
— Chanda
Wheat, moong, millet, and corn – all these foods should be given because they contain a large amount of vitamins.
— Anirudha Marai · Sambalpur, Odisha
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
The nutritious food we have, like gourds, brinjals, and other vegetables after harvesting, I should feed to the government.
— Vijay kanesh · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
Nutritious food items include almonds, chia seeds, and citrus fruits.
— Sunita Kumari · Ghorawal, Sonbhadra, Uttar Pradesh
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
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 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
Chirounji and Amla pickles can be included among the most nutritious foods.
— Sukhdas Mandavi · Mohla, Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki, Chhattisgarh
Let's cultivate and eat barnyard millet, little millet, and wheat. They contain vitamins, and the body will remain healthy.
— Laxmi Bagh · Sundargarh, Odisha
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
Our most nutritious locally available food items, which should include wheat, maize, and pure fresh food, and be promoted by the government.
— Laxmanlal
Moringa, rice and Chironji nuts, mango pickle, local rice, etc.
— Surajsingh Parmar · Alirajpur, Madhya Pradesh
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