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Consultant-Clinical Dietitian Sabah Ghare recommends why you must include seasonal fruits like jamun along with colourful veggies in your monsoon diet.
Monsoon is the breeding season for fish and shellfish, making them more susceptible to contamination, warns Zamurrud Patel, chief dietitian, Gleneagles Hospital. Instead, include freshly cooked chicken, eggs or pulses in your meals to meet your daily protein requirements.
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Tarun Shetty, executive chef of Smaaash, Mumbai shares delicious monsoon recipes.
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Welcome the monsoon with these special rainy treats.
A pinch of turmeric in a glass of milk or with honey in hot water would be ideal for the monsoon.
These deep-fried Corn Cheese Balls can be made from scratch in less than 40 minutes.
A balanced diet should include steamed and boiled vegetables, milk products such as buttermilk and yoghurt, fresh fruits, herbal teas and bitter vegetables, suggests Zamurrud M Patel, CDE, RD, chief dietician, Global Hospitals, Mumbai.
Mini Ribeiro lists down 10 of her favourite comfort monsoon foods.
'Spending by the middle class is limited with a focus on savings. However, there is buoyancy at the top-end.'
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Hitesh Harisinghani shows you how to make the perfect Mumbai snack.
Lip-smacking recipes for the rainy season.
The FMCG industry hopes for a revival in consumption growth in 2025 with some 'green shoots' already visible, after having a challenging year amid escalating input costs and a double-digit rise in food inflation, which ultimately slowed down the pace of the urban market growth in the second half of 2024. Soaring prices of commodities such as palm oil, coffee, cocoa and wheat forced FMCG players to go for a hike of 3 to 5 per cent or resort to shrinkflation by reducing pack sizes and grammage to retain attractive price points, fearing a volume loss.
Chef Vijesh Modi from The Deltin, Daman shares his special monsoon recipes. You can share yours too!
Turn your leftover chapattis into a hearty snack.
This is the breeding season for fish, which means you are at risk of eating fish with eggs, which may lead to food poisoning, warns Delnaaz Chanduwadia.
These savoury kachoris are perfect for rainy days.
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A monsoon holiday can be cheaper because of discounts.
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'Due to rural stress, volumes continue to remain an issue for the industry, and we are yet to see any revival in demand.'
The fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) sector has underperformed the Nifty over the past year as its 20 per cent return is trumped by 29 per cent of the benchmark index. The FMCG index saw a 2.2 per cent drop in the last session, while the Nifty lost 1 per cent. FMCG is seen as a defensive segment. The demand for staples like personal care products, groceries and snacks tend to be stable. FMCG companies are consistent dividend-payers.
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Some of the easily digestible spices during monsoon are garlic, asafetida, pepper, ginger, turmeric, cumin and coriander. They also provide excellent nutrition.
These luscious mushrooms swimming in a silky butter garlic sauce are great as a side dish/nice appetizer/ afternoon snack.
