India, the most diverse country in the world, is all set to celebrate three winter festivals Lohri, Makar Sankranti and Pongal from Friday. The festivals are predominantly harvest festivals and are celebrated throughout India, from north to south and east to west. While Makar Sankranti is most popular in West India, down south, the festival is known as Pongal and in the north, it is celebrated as Lohri. The festival of bonfire, delicious food, greetings, and togetherness is here again to make this winter unforgettable. Yes, this is indeed the most joyous time of the year!!
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Guna’s organic walnuts and its health benefits!!

Organic Walnuts belong to the tree nut family, along with Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamia nuts, pecans, pine nuts, and pistachios.

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We bring to you Guna’s organic cashews right from Goa and all that you need to know about them!!

Regular cashews are treated with sulphur for whiteness and packaging flushed with nitrogen to make it more crispy and crusty!!! Guna’s Organic cashews are free from all such nasties!

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The NGO initiated their interventions in the year 2014-2015 in the regions of Ladakh through self-funding and received overwhelming support from local administrations, villagers and farmer communities for peaceful facilitation of awareness campaigns, testing of organic demos of agriculture.

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What is Castor Oil?

Castor Oil is a very pale yellow liquid that is extracted from castor seeds (Ricinus Communis). It is an anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant oil which has been used for centuries for its therapeutic and medicinal benefits. It is believed that most of castor oil’s benefits are derived from its high concentration of unsaturated fatty acids.

USES : Although it has a strong and rather unpleasant taste, castor oil is used in cosmetics, soaps, textiles, medicines, massage oils and many other everyday products

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Yummy and nutritious.. just like it’s sight it helps us maintain a trim body.

There are many additional reasons to eat pine nuts aside from the flavor, as they’re surprisingly good for your health.

Suppress Your Appetite

If you’re trying to lose weight, eating pine nuts may help. Research showed that fatty acids derived from pine nuts lead to the release of high amounts of cholecystokinin (CCK), an appetite-suppressing hormone.4

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With ever increasing human population and fast depletion of natural resources , it has become increasingly important to diversify agriculture in order meet various human needs.This thought has led to the rise of GM agriculture and import of expensive, sometimes toxic ingredients that has led to replacement of nutritionally rich and under-utilised native food products.

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“When we see the sun and the moon, the sky and stars, mountains    and rivers, seas and forests, fields and valleys, birds and animals and  all the wonders of nature, let us be thankful for our environment on  earth and live in harmony with all that surrounds us.” Michio Kushi

Macrobiotics is a grateful and practical approach to diet that is centred around the following: –
1. Wholegrains
2. Cleansing veggies to alkalise the blood and free us from  any harmful radiation that may have
seeped in our bodies
3. Fruits and plant proteins.

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The kitchen may also be seen as a platform for spirituality. Here cooking is not only an art, it may become a daily ritual, an opportunity for intuition to develop and cater for what the body also really needs. Emotionally, Macrobiotics can help create inner balance by addressing desires for extreme foods and drinks such as sugary desserts, chocolates, alcohol and coffee. Read More The Kitchen Blog