the current food trends are all about healthy diets in the form of raw fresh and organic food produce cooked with minimum oil and spices it seems we are going back to our roots as this is the minimalist diet that father of the nation mahatma gandhi believed in while today we try to follow this form of diet to rid ourselves of lifestyle ailments due to untimely meal timings rich food and noexercise routine gandhi had himself chosen to have a simple vegetarian diet a lawyer by academic background mahatma wrote a number of books in his lifetime and quite a few of these were related to food and health he is said to have researched on the benefits of various foods and experimented with many dishes from an early age of eighteen when he was a studentthe daily meala simple meal of roti seasonal vegetables fruits and fresh fruit juices were part of gandhis daily diet while he had given up on milk and dairy products there came a time when he was recovering from a serious illness and decided to start drinking milk again he experimented with goats milk and went on to have curd made from the same milk it is said that he researched the facts and found out that it was as nutritious as cows milkopt for fresh and organic producegandhi preferred organic food and opposed processed edible items so it was brown rice instead of polished white rice jaggery instead of regular sugar that he had opted for he also believed in getting his regular dose of sugar rush from fruits which formed an important part of his diet he emphasised on eating fruits available as per the season while fasting gandhi would have fresh fruit juices which were a source of instant energy nuts too were an important part of his daily intakeopt for nutritious food gandhi insisted on making use of cereals as well as lentils pulses etc as part of his staple diet he liked to try and prepare cereals from different parts of india but would not consume more than one kind of cereal at a time he would insist on using unpolished and nonsieved wheat rice jowar bajra flour since they retained important nutritional constituents and added to the roughage needed for good digestion while cereals provided the body with starch gandhi would turn to beans lentils and pulses for the protein supplement he would prefer the easiertodigest moong and masoor to the other variety of beans peas grams and pulsessimple methods of preparationswhen it came to vegetables gandhi liked to eat fresh vegetables cooked in a simple manner so it would be a salad of raw or boiled cucumber tomatoes beetroot and radish without any additions he would also consume the juice of boiled lauki or have boiled brinjal during his meals he avoided starchy vegetables like potatoes sweet potatoes yam etcfat and sugar are important toowhile his cooking was minimal and often firefree gandhi acknowledged that