Some food that should be a part of your diet during winters are,
1. Green Vegetables and whole grains
There is a reason why particular foods are grown in a particular season, which is to take care of and nourish our body in that season.
Thus do include seasonal vegetables like saag, spinach, radish, carrots, peas, etc along with good whole grains such as Bajra, Makki, or multigrain.
Also never run from the good old foods prepared in the traditional way, like Makki roti with saag and desi ghee/white butter
Just make sure that you enjoy the good old foods but never overeat.
2. Peanut Jaggery Chikki
The goodness of jaggery and peanuts is the best snack of post sweet meal you can have in winters.
As it helps to keep your body warm and will also satisfy your sweet cravings post-meal.
Again moderation is and will always be the key, never overeat or binge it.
3. Seasonal Fruits
Never miss the goodness of local and seasonal fruits that comes in the seasons.
Fruits are a good source of essential vitamins and minerals and antioxidants which is good for your body and health.
And yes no simple fruit has the power to make you fat, a bad lifestyle has.
4. Honey
Now honey is the food of winters, which has a good number of benefits,
- A good source of antioxidants
- Rich in phytonutrients which are good for your immunity and overall health
- Honey is good for your throat, as it has the properties to heal, which is consuming some good honey will keep your throat protected from cold and cough
- Helps to improve the digestion capabilities of your body.
- Also, it helps to keep your body warm in the winters.
So how you can consume honey?
The best way of consuming honey is to have as it is with or with some almonds,
or you can have it in some lukewarm water first thing in the morning and you can add to your oats, bread toast, milk, fruits, smoothies, etc
Just make sure that when you are consuming honey, it should be 100%, real honey.
A lot of brands that are selling honey on a commercial level are not selling you honey,
What they are selling you is a little bit of honey adulated with sugar syrup and with additive vegetable syrup(such as rice syrup)
Which you might have heard about this in recent times on the internet and media, as many of the top brands were found guilty of adulterating their honey with some cheap sugar syrups.
Alternative:- Natural Honey of a good brand that genuinely provides organic honey without any additive of sugars or corn syrup.
Again a lot of brands are there which are not even pure in the name of organic as well(Which is again a different thing going on), thus try to research about the brand who is selling organic or natural product from there website and customer feedback,
one good brand of honey that you can buy/consume is Honeybasket as this honey is FSSAI and NaBL lab certified, unheated, and unpasteurized which is genuinely providing real/original honey as it is, in its natural form, without any adulteration in the old school glass jars.
Also, they don't sell from amazon as already many so-called organic brands are misleading the name of organic, they are selling from there own website which you can buy their honey from their website (www.honeybasket.in)
5. Dry Fruits, seeds, and ghee
Ghee is one of the best superfoods that should never be out of your plate, From digestion to good health, ghee gives you all of that.
Also add some good dry fruits like almonds, walnuts, cashew, black raisin, Pista in your diet as well.
And don't forget to soak your dry fruits in the water the night before, as when you eat soaked dry fruits, the digestion, and assimilation of nutrients is much better.
Therefore these are some good foods that should be a part of your diet in winters.
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