Hyderabad: Never thought of eating pastures, vegetables, and fruits liked by Grandpa? Immediately, someone can get a sense of food that is popular three to four generations ago but out of the daily menu as agricultural industrialization takes the centrestage.
City farm scientists revive food that provides nutritional support to our ancestors.
Scientists at the International Plant Research Institute for Tropical Semi-Arid (ICRISAT) in Patancheru have prepared a large list of seeds, vegetables, fruits and oil grains which are widely cultivated by around 100 to 150 years ago.
Some popular recently as four to five decades ago.
This list also includes leafy vegetables, fruits and vegetables that quickly disappear from farmers’ priority plants.
According to scientists, tuber plants such as sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes and pulses such as gram red and masoor dal (lentil) lose popularity and seeds such as sorghum have made it to the list of “foods” “.
It might sound strange but even popular potatoes, jackfruit, acid and apple custard lose sheen like food ingredients selected.
Some of the foods that are popular during the great grandfather’s time are grain amaranth, buckwheat, chenopoda, finger selling, tail millet, millet proso, millet codo, barnyard millet, rice nuts, nat beans, adzuki beans, taro, taro, sweet potato, sweet potato, jewish, marine buckthorn, work water, tree paradise, spinal pumpkin, sweet hibiscus, amaranth, grass pods, wood apple, star fruit, jujube india, lily, lotus and bamboo.
team ICRISAT, among scientists from other research agencies, has prepared a list as part of the global manifesto to be submitted to the UN food system summit later this year.
This food is not only nutritious but also breaks down It’s lacking food.
Last month, Icrisat scientists held an international seminar on the food of grandparents in run-up to the UN summit.
Joanna Kane-Potaka, Assistant Director General, Icrisat, said: “Forgotten food has the potential to improve some problems faced by our food system today and will face in the future because the world’s population grows, climate uncertainty becomes more general and diet.
Related to rising.
It is time for us to get rid of them from their ‘forget’ tag and embrace them to realize the changes we want to see, with farmers in the midst of change to bring back biodiversity.
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Ravi Khetrapal, Executive Secretary, Asian Agricultural Research Association The Pacific, said the manifesto developed by collective actions will soon lead to the planned global action to mainstream this food.
“The key now is to have a good communication strategy to ensure awareness of food forgotten and to make policy interventions to change the research system and agri-food innovation,” he said.
Historical data shows that people in the past have been cultivated and consumed various food crops, which have high nutritional value.
However, because of modern agriculture, industrialization and the consequences of changes in policy and food habits, many have moved from traditional foods.
This is now almost a forgotten food.