What food actually contains
Nutrient figures taken from published food composition tables and cited to them. Juices, powders and dishes written down properly. And a straight line about what food does not do.
- foods, every figure cited
- 9foods, every figure cited
- preparations
- 9preparations
- verified edible flowers
- 10verified edible flowers
Make something at home
Method, storage life and what can go wrong. We do not print nutrient numbers for anything made at home — the real content varies several-fold with the produce.
Juices
Pressed, strained, drunk fresh. What the fruit contains, and what it does not.
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Powders
Dried in shade, milled fine, stored dark. Moringa, curry leaf, sesame.
3 entries→
Dishes
Indian and Western cooking built around one ingredient worth eating.
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Remedies
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Amla and ginger juice
IndianSharp, bitter and warming. Amla is one of the richest fruit sources of vitamin C, and the ginger takes the edge off the astringency.
15 minutes
Moringa and lime cooler
IndianA green, grassy cooler built on fresh moringa leaf rather than powder, with lime to lift it.
20 minutes
Sugarcane with ginger and lime
IndianThe street-corner standard, made properly at home. Sweet, sharp and best drunk within minutes of pressing.
10 minutes
Moringa leaf powder
IndianDried and milled drumstick leaf. The whole point is drying it out of sunlight — sun-dried leaf loses colour and much of what makes it worth drying.
2–4 days, mostly waiting
Curry leaf powder
IndianRoasted curry leaf milled with dal and chilli — a karuveppilai podi to eat with rice and ghee, not a supplement.
30 minutes
Roasted sesame powder
IndianRoasted sesame ground with a little salt. Sesame is among the richest common sources of dietary calcium and iron.
15 minutes
Foods rich in…
Ranked from measured content per 100 g. Never as a percentage of a daily requirement — that turns a food into a supplement.
What we will not publish
No content on treating disease. No claim that a food cures, reverses or prevents anything. No nutrient quantities for home preparations, and no percentages of a daily requirement.
No lemon juice on skin — it causes phototoxic burns. No water-containing cosmetic without a named preservative and its usage rate. No flower outside the verified allowlist. No homemade sunscreen, ever.
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