Top 10 organic produces in India
Posted on: 13/Dec/2017 5:02:05 PM
Check out the top 10 list of organic food items available in India.
Vegetables
Those vegetables that have 68 percent consumption stand atop in the list. Veggies such as capsicum, tomatoes, cauliflower, potato, bitter gourd, carrot, spinach, green chilies, brinjal, etc. account to a major portion of the organic vegetable option.
These organic produces have got more exposure to the humans than the fertilizers or chemicals in use. That is why we have these vegetables hand weeded and densely planted.
Fruits
In India, organic fruits account to 52 percent of consumption of organic food products. The most purchased organic plant products include bananas, peaches, apples, alphonso mangoes, pomegranates, etc.
To these fruits, no kind of ethylene hormones or quick ripening chemicals such as acetylene gas are used. In general, these will be used for ripening apples, bananas and mangoes. These fruits are of very high quality and taste that you will feel them being consistently sweet unlike those that are artificially ripened using chemicals.
Organic pulses
The organic pulses produced in India account to 51 percent consumption. This includes moong, channa, toor, masoor, urad, arhar, kidney beans, and so on. The pulses that are grown organically will be sweeter and have increased nutritional values. When cooked, the aroma of these organic pulses will be elite in level! For growing such organic crops, practices such as organic pulse crops, crop rotations, mechanical control, etc. are sed.
Beverages
The organic beverages widely in use in India includes coffee, Tulsi green tea, Aam panna, Nimbupani, Sugarcane juice, kokum juice, jaljeera, and so on.
Meat
Animals that are not subjected to any kind of feeding or exposure to radiation, or herbicides, pesticides, additives, sewage sludge, preservatives, or genetically modified organisms provide us with organic meat. They are rather fed with grass, berries, green leafy plants, and so on. There is high content of Omega-3 and CLA in organic meat. It is healthier option as compared to non-organic meat.
Milk
Organic milk accounts to 45 percent of organic food products. In such cases, organic milk is the milk produced out of cows that are not subjected to any kind of growth hormone or antibiotics. They are fed with 100 percent organic items and they will be allowed to graze. With that, we could ensure that the milk we obtain is free from undesired chemicals, as the food consumed largely impacts the produces from cattle.
Eggs
Organic chicken that are given healthy, natural diet without use of antibiotics, chemicals, eggshells or ground bones produce organic eggs. These chickens are never caged. The yolk of these eggs will be slightly even more orange in shade.
Fruit juice
In Indian populace, 51 percent of the organic fruit juices are widely purchased. It is inclusive of coconut water, organic juice, apple juice, pineapple juice, aloe vera juice, gooseberry juice, amla juice, etc.
Tea
Organic tea is gaining popularity among Indians. As there are more flavored leaves and increased nutritional values, its popularity is growing in leaps and bounds. In general, the cultivation of tea depends on the conventional methods used to produce such green leaves of high quality.
For avoiding use of herbicides, we make use of hand weeding. The weeded plant material is then combined with cow dung and made use as fertilizer. Cow urine is also used for repelling insects.
Food grains
About 50 percent of consumption includes organic food grains. This is a clear indication of how health conscious Indian consumers are! Wheat, millet, corn, maize, rice, etc. are some of the food grains produced organically. As an alternative to synthetic nitrogen fertilizers or persistent herbicides and pesticides, for producing these food grains, we make use of cow dung, organic fertilizers and mulches.
