Foods are directly connected with human spirit and emotions. Food adds to our personality. Food is life and life must not step away from nature. When the food, the body, the heart, and the mind become perfectly united with nature, it leads to Natural diet. Everyone should be aware that always nature is complete, balanced in perfect harmony with itself. Natural food is whole and within the whole are nourishment and subtle flavours. The food and the human spirit are united.

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In the present circumstances, all the food we get from the market including fruits, vegetables and groceries are poisoned, half by the farmers with synthetic chemical fertilizers, weedicides and pesticides and other half by the market middlepersons with food adulterations. In the world, few companies are dominate in the Pesticides market and the same companies are dominating in the Seeds market too. Farming with corporate produced seeds cannot be done without using dangerous pesticides. Also, after we consume these poisoned foods, we will definitely fall sick and have to consume allopathic pharmaceutical medicine. Same corporate companies are present in the pharmaceutical field as well. Now, we can understand this conspired poisonous nexus.

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Aikanthika is a place for exploring Natural Farming and Natural Living. After undergoing a process of well researched and experiments at Aikanthika, we figure out healthy alternative ingredients and offer here only the tastiest food recipes according to our experiences. We started growing most of our own food, instead of buying adulterated poisoned food. Also, we do barter or get or buy some of our true food from others. While getting food from outside, we do that with cautious and conscious food choices. Our food is evolving towards natural and more diversifying. One of the key activity we do at Aikanthika is Heritage Seed conservation. We have a Heritage Seed Bank named as ‘Vivida’ with diverse planting materials in Rice, Coconuts, fruits, Vegetables, Tubers, Spices, Ornamental, Medicinal and Aromatic and many more.

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Nutrition cannot be separated from taste. Nutritious foods are good for human body, whet the appetite and are delicious on their own. Nutrients, Taste and Health are directly related to each other. Nutrition cannot be separated from the sense of taste. Proper nourishment is inseparable from good flavour.

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Listing out our Diversified Food Choices:

• Fruits – consuming more than 50 different kinds.

• Tubers – increasing consumption with diverse varieties.

• Native or Local leafy vegetables instead of buying leafy vegetables grown in sewage water of urban spaces.

• Rice – Poison-free and Polish-free. Brown, Red and Black coloured diversified indigenous or heritage rice varieties.

• Wheat – Heritage varieties like Red, Black and Jave godi which are free off glutenous issues.

• Increasing usage of Millets like Sorghum (Jowar), Pearl (Bajra), Finger (Ragi), Kodo, Proso, Barnyard, Browntop, Little and Foxtail to replace the rice and wheat as our staple food to certain extent.

• Gradually, shifting from gas cooking to wood fired cooking by using traditional Wood stove, Astra stove and Barbecue.

• Baking, Grilling and Tandoori is done in Cob oven instead of microwave oven, which is cancer causing.

• Cookware: Cooking in Clay, Cast iron and Brass cookware instead of aluminium and teflon coated non-stick cookware. Utensils and Spoons are made out of Wooden, Steel, Glass and Ceramic instead of plastic and aluminium.

• Food storage containers: Glass, Ceramic and Steel containers instead of plastic and fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) containers.

• Cooking oils – Unrefined, Unadulterated and Poison-freely produced oils like Coconut, Groundnut, Sesame or Gingelly, Flaxseed or Linseed and Safflower.

• Jaggery (Joni bella or semi liquid form) instead of Sugar.

• Stopped Maida (refined wheat flour), alternatively using – Whole flours of Wheat, Rice, Sorghum (Jowar), Finger Millet (Ragi) and Plantain (raw Banana) flour.

• Salt – Saindava lavana (Rock salt or Himalayan Pink salt)

and unrefined Natural Sea salt.

• Stopped milk and milk products:

Alternatives for milk can be made from – Coconut, Safflower, Finger millet and Pearl millet

Alternatives for Ghee and Butter – Coconut oil and Shea butter

• Drinks - We consume Ragi malt, Ragi milk, Paanakam, Sherbat, Hibiscus tea, Butterfly pea tea and Herbal teas instead of soft drinks, coffee, tea and milk.

• Water - Open well water is a better option than borewell water and far better than bottled water or RO water. Water drawn manually from open well is filtered with a cotton cloth and stored in earthern pot. Earthern pot water tastes better and satisfies our thirst.

• Fish – Caught in Natural water bodies and prefer native species.

• Chicken and Egg – Indigenous or Desi poultry breeds.

• Indigenous or Heritage varieties of food instead of corporate sponsored, produced, improved varieties and genetically modified.

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A natural person can achieve right diet because his instinct is in proper working order. A person is satisfied with simple food, as it is nutritious, tasting good and is useful as daily medicine. Unless people become natural people, there can be neither natural farming nor natural food. Doctors take care of sick people; Nature takes care of healthy people.

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“Right Food, Right Action, Right Awareness”. The three cannot be separated from one another. If one is missing, none can be realized. If one is realized, all are realized. We are moving towards synchronizing ourselves with nature and in this process instead of poisoned food we are consuming True Food.

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