India has enough of seasonal varieties of fruits which are affordable.
Why's the craze for fruits of foreign origins?
During transportation, lots of vitamins and minerals tend to be lost because of artificial methods used to keep them ripe and fresh
Watermelon is a summer fruit and it's mostly water which is desperatey needed to avoid dehydration.
Besides water this fruit has tons of others as good fibers,water soluble vitamins and precursor to fat soluble vitamin like vitamin A, carotene,beta carotene.
We Do Not have to take vitamins as supplements if we're consuming seasonal fruits as part of our daily diet
Excess of everything is bad and it's applicable to fruits also and diabetics too who can consume fruits because of fructose as sugar in fruits require little amount of insulin, compared with heavy carbs like maida
Encourage farmers to grow seasonal fruits who are selling to vendors for just 5/- and vendors are selling to us at 10 times the cost
Make in India needs encouragement for local, regional and seasonal fruits too.
Neelam Nath
New Delhi
