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Odisha's slow-baked cottage-cheese sweet with jaggery — a full glass of milk's worth of calcium and protein disguised as a bronze-topped dessert.
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North India's ghee-puffed-gond, wheat and jaggery ladoo — the winter immunity treat generations of grandmothers reached for through the sniffle season.
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Punjab's slow-reduced milk kulfi — concentrated calcium and protein in a small cold bar the milk-refusing child asks for.
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Gujarat's fenugreek-and-whole-wheat flatbread — iron-rich leafy greens folded invisibly into a soft, tiffin-friendly bread the child says yes to.
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Maharashtra's iron-rich sweet festival bread — chana dal and jaggery folded into whole-wheat, disguising serious dal nutrition as a treat.