Abstract

SOME TRADITIONAL RECIPES OF INDIA IN THE LIGHT OF AYURVEDA

Dr. Roushani Kalia*

Abstract

Indian cuisine varies from region to region. The tradition in food when recognised can be a potent tool for fighting food hunger in India. India is an ever expanding economy and this emerging super power needs its to roots consolidated and nourished. Rural households are the smallest unit of the country and also its building blocks. In Ayurveda, food is considered to affect the mind as well as the body. By understanding how to prepare foods best suited to our minds and bodies, we can utilize nutrition as a source of healing. Food is the most essential to sustain a good life and the same food if consumed inappropriately becomes the root cause of many diseases. The sustainable development goals enlist ‘No Hunger’ as one of the goal. By understanding traditional food and strengthening its relevance in the current times offers very promising solution to world issue over food shortage and at the same time it gives substance to the idea of preventive medicine which is the building block of health in society.

Keywords: Rural households are the smallest unit of the country and also its building blocks.