7 ways to tell if your honey is actually pure (and 3 tests that prove nothing)
The matchstick test, the water test, the thumb test — most of what circulates on Facebook is useless. Here is what actually…
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Black seed oil: what the thymoquinone number actually means
Two bottles of kalojira oil can look identical and differ tenfold in the compound that matters. Here is how to read the label.
Two weeks in the Sundarbans with the Mawali honey hunters
Every April a few hundred licensed collectors enter the mangrove forest with permits, smoke and no protective gear. We went with…
Golden milk, three ways: turmeric drinks that do not taste like medicine
Haldi doodh has a reputation for tasting like punishment. These three versions fix that.
Moringa for low haemoglobin: what the leaf can and cannot do
Sojne pata grows in half the backyards in Bangladesh. Here is an honest look at where it helps and where the claims run ahead of…
Why real ghee cannot be cheap: the 30 litre maths
A kilogram of honest ghee starts with roughly thirty litres of milk. Run the arithmetic and most market prices stop making sense.