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The Indian Gooseberry known as Nellikkai in Tamil and Amla in Hindi is reputed to have the highest content of vitamin C It contains more Vitamin C than orange lime guava or sweet lime About 100 gms of the edible fruit contains about 600 mg of Vitamin C 8 75 mg of natural vitamin C complex from Nellikkai is equivalent to 100 mg of the most commonly used synthetic vitamin C It also contains many minerals and vitamins like Calcium Phosphorus Iron Carotene and Vitamin B Complex It helps in dilating the blood vessels and thereby reducing the blood pressure It also helps reduce blood sugar in diabetics It is a powerful antioxidant agent It cures acidity ulcer and improve appetite It is very effective in treatment of Eye and Heart diseases Diarrhea dysentery and Hair loss The tree is considered as a sacred tree in India Above all most important fact is the vitamin C content in Gooseberry does not diminish with cooking So either go for a fresh fruit or cook it whatever way you like Raw fruit is very sour when you bite it first but slowly you will get sweet taste when you munch it Drinking water after munching the fruit is different sweet experience
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From The NYT Delhi Snacks Move Up From the Street By SOMINI SENGUPTA NEW DELHI INDIAN street food is a snack of endless varieties eaten on the run or on a date while playing or playing hooky from school It is served and sometimes entirely prepared on the street It is eaten while standing also on the street usually within whiffing distance of the gutter But as incomes rise and ways of eating change the inevitable has happened Street food that emblem of raucous messy urban India is slowly being tamed In recent years it has begun to come indoors get sterilized and go upmarket Most recently a court order has prompted this city s government to consider a ban on cooking food outdoors Across India street food can range from the gilauti kebab of Lucknow skewered lamb so tender that legend says it was invented by a toothless nawab s cook to the kathi roll of Calcutta a deep fried wrap of grilled meat raw onion and hot sauce of secret provenance The iconic street food of Delhi is chaat a variety of snacks that are meant to deliver a rave of tastes and sensations to the tongue from crunchy to soft tart to hot and sweet The word is derived from the verb to lick A good chaat is a complex assemblage as pleasure always is and by definition it is not good for you In Delhi you can find nearly a dozen different kinds of chaat on the streets They all involve something fried and starchy and indulging in chaat requires abandoning all concern for hygiene Today across India brightly lit fast food chains offer the standard varieties of chaat Specialty restaurants self consciously peddle the nostalgia of the unruly street in the least unruly surroundings of all the mall Even at a five star hotel restaurant called Fire a slender glass platter of chaat can be sampled improbably with a bottle of champagne Increasingly in these tamed chaat enclaves the cooks use gloves for the sake of hygiene Plastic cups and plates have replaced the cups and plates washed on the side of the road th
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