COWBERRY's Blog: Organic Food, Recipes & Healthy Living

Kangni benefits, one source at a time: a gluten-free grain with protein, fibre, polyphenols and micronutrients, one recorded GI of 89, and no composition table in the standard tables. Side effects, daily amount and how to eat it.

Coffee vs tea side by side: caffeine per mug (about 100 mg vs 75 mg), what the research says about each drink, how each is drunk in India, and which drink suits whom.

Rajma recipe: five ways with kidney beans on one page. The dhaba-style rajma curry, rajma chawal and one-pot rajma khichdi, plus a rajma salad and tikki, each with cooker times, per-bowl numbers and links to the full recipes.

Rajma tree is a misnomer: rajma grows on a leguminous plant, Phaseolus vulgaris. How COWBERRY's rajma is grown in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu, what pulses do for the soil, and the many Indian names for one seed.

Difference between kadi patta and tej patta: kadi patta is the fresh green curry leaf fried in the tadka, tej patta is the dried bay leaf simmered whole in pulao and lifted out. Look, taste, uses and the food-table numbers side by side.

Coffee calories per 100g for dry powder, beans and filter coffee: 353 kcal per 100 g, 18 kcal per teaspoon, plus what milk, sugar and jaggery add to a cup.

Does honey contain sugar? Yes: 82.4 g of carbohydrate per 100 g, almost all of it simple sugars, beside 0.2 g of fibre and no fat. What the WHO free-sugar rule means per 7 g teaspoon, and how honey lines up against white sugar.

Rajma ke fayde aur nuksan, seedhi baat: 100 g rajma mein 19.9 g protein aur 16.6 g fibre, ek katori aur ek plate ke numbers, tested GI 45, aur gas aur lectins ke caveats jo har kidney bean ke saath aate hain.

Coffee ke fayde aur nuksan: 2017 BMJ review ke risk reductions teen se chaar cup par, caffeine ki limits, aur kaun sambhalke piye.

Curry leaves nutrition facts 100g from IFCT 2017 for the fresh leaf: 64 kcal, 7.41 g protein, 16.83 g fibre, 659 mg calcium, 8.67 mg iron, 117 mcg folate. Plus what one teaspoon (5 g) of the tadka carries and how the leaf compares with bay leaf and coriander powder.

Date jaggery (khejur gur in English) is gur made from date palm juice, a category of its own in the FSSAI standard beside cane and palm jaggery. The legal limits, the solid, liquid and granular forms, how nolen gur and patali gur are used, and how to buy and store it.

Dalia recipes: 10 easy broken wheat dishes grouped by meal, from khichdi, upma and porridge to cutlets, chivda, laddu, kheer and halwa, each with a two-line method.