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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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Punjab's ghee-roasted-wheat and jaggery pinni — concentrated iron in a small warm ball that keeps for weeks and lands as a treat.
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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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Maharashtra's iron-rich sweet festival bread — chana dal and jaggery folded into whole-wheat, disguising serious dal nutrition as a treat.
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Maharashtra's pearl-sago khichdi with peanuts and ghee — a soft, high-calorie warm bowl designed for the small eater who nibbles.