7 Amazing Food Facts Related To Indian Food

Food. Everyone loves food and all have different tastes.Food is a thing without that no one can survive and in our India. there is a variety of different types of foods. India is a vast country and it has many types of food tastes which differ from state to state. so in this post we will tell you some amazing facts related to Indian food. The history of Indian food is not known to many. So lets see some            amazing facts about Indian food.




  • India is called the Land Of Spices and no other country in the world produce as many varieties of spices that India produces.


  • Staple ingredient of Indian cuisine  potato,tomato and Chilli don't have Indian origin they  were brought to India by Portuguese.

  • Portuguese also introduced refined sugar to us before that fruits and honey were used as sweeteners in India.

  • According to Indian food theory, our food has 6 different flavours: sweet,salty,bitter,sour,astringent and spicy.
A proper Indian meal has all these flavours , with one or two flavours standing out.

  • Pepper is known as king of spices because it goes well with everything.Imagine how our food will taste without pepper.

  • Indian food system classifies food into three categories- Saatvic(fresh vegetables and juice) Raajsic(oily and spicy food) and taasmic (Meat and liquor).

Saatvic food leads you to higher state of consciousness . 

Raajsic food is the foundation of activity and motion.

Taasmic food brings out negativity.

  • Samosa too existed as sambosa in middle east much before 13-14th century before it came to India.

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So now you come to know about many facts about Indian food which you don't ever thought of. Many food which are staple but doesn't origin from India. So anyone asks you about Indian food you can tell them this facts. India is a place where you can find a wide variety of foods.

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