Corporation Canteen Gone Herbal
Posted on: 06/Dec/2012 12:40:10 PM
The motto `food is medicine and medicine is food` clarified by our ancestors about the food which consist of herbal makes our health improvise this was been made in life in the corporation canteen on the haunt of the officials health concern.
The herbal products constitutes the canteen of corporation canteen serves avarampoo (Cassia auriculata) idli, avarampoo dosa, tail millet idli, mudakathan keerai (balloon vine) dosa and thoothuvalai (purple-fruited pea eggplant) dosa. "The avaram flower prevents diabetes. Eating it once a week in any form will reduce the sugar levels in your body,"says Dr Veerababu, who runs the canteen. Kezhvaragu dosa and manathakkali dosa are the other specialities. "Manathakkali cures stomach ulcers.Thoothuvalai prevents phlegm formation in the body,thus preventing cold and cough," reads a poster in the canteen. The canteen also serves herbal tea, herbal soups, juices and ginger buttermilk.
One dish that caught everyone`s attention was the vegetarian omelette. "This helps people who have recently turned to vegetarianism or vegan ism " says Dr Veerababu."Itis made of neermulli which has the properties of egg. The mixture is beaten with vegetables on a pan and made into an omelette, said by the cook of canteen.the prices were also reduced and the aim is to draw daily wage labourers to eat healthy food instead of cholesterol-ridden food from unhygienic stalls.The whole canteen was made to be traditionalism due to the health concern. A counter outside the canteen also sells banyan branches to clean teeth.
