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What foods should not eat during Navratri festival?

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Updated on07/25/26

During Navratri, many people follow a special fasting diet and avoid certain foods as part of religious traditions. The exact rules may vary by family and region.

Foods commonly avoided during Navratri include:

• Onion and garlic

• Regular wheat flour (atta)

• Rice (in some traditions)

• Regular table salt (many people use rock salt or sendha namak instead)

• Non-vegetarian food (meat, fish, eggs)

• Alcohol and tobacco

• Processed and junk foods

• Lentils and most pulses

• Regular grains like maize and barley

Foods commonly eaten during Navratri include fruits, milk, yogurt, makhana, potatoes, sweet potatoes, sabudana, kuttu atta, singhara atta, rajgira, and dry fruits.

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Answered on05/18/26

During the Navratri festival, many people avoid certain foods as part of fasting and spiritual practices. Commonly restricted foods include onion, garlic, non-vegetarian items, eggs, regular table salt, alcohol, and processed or packaged foods. Grains such as wheat, rice, and lentils are also avoided by many devotees during fasting days. Instead, people usually consume vrat-friendly foods like fruits, milk, potatoes, sabudana, kuttu atta, singhara atta, makhana, and rock salt (sendha namak). Fried and overly spicy foods are also limited in some traditions. Food practices may vary depending on family customs, regional traditions, and the type of Navratri fast being followed.

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Answered on05/14/26

During Navratri, many people avoid certain foods as part of fasting traditions and religious beliefs.

  • Onion and garlic are commonly avoided during Navratri fasting.
  • Regular table salt is often replaced with sendha namak (rock salt).
  • Wheat flour, rice, and regular grains are avoided by many people observing strict fasts.
  • Non-vegetarian food, eggs, and alcohol are generally not consumed during this period.
  • Some people also avoid processed foods and packaged snacks.
  • Lentils and certain spices may also be restricted depending on family traditions.
  • Many people instead eat fruits, sabudana, makhana, vrat flour, potatoes, and dairy products.

Honestly, Navratri food rules can vary a lot depending on personal beliefs, region, and family traditions.

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Updated on05/23/26

The celebration of Navratri gets a great deal of delight and energy, it is that season when families meet up to invite Goddess Durga and look for her favors. Chaitra Navratri is commended during the start of the mid year season, it is accepted that goddess herself dwells on earth to offer endowments to her aficionados.

It is where families get together, clean their homes, bring home the icon and love each day or compose puja. It is encouraged to stay away from specific nourishments and habits,which spreads antagonism around you. Fasting for Navratri is a custom, which is regularly trailed by many individuals, particularly in North India.

Certain vegetables:

The satvik vegetables are chiefly encouraged to expend during fasts. Potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, crude banana, and so on are exhorted as these don't have a solid taste to it. Though tamasic nourishments that have a particular taste and smell is an exacting no. Onion and garlic are carefully abstained from during Navratri. While a few people likewise abstain from devouring tomatoes during these fasts.

Flour:

The ordinary universally handy flour/maida isn't at all permitted during Navratri. You can utilize different options like kuttu ka atta or buckwheat flour, singhare ka atta or water chestnut flour and even rajgira ka atta or amaranth flour. Thus, on the off chance that you are fasting this Navratri, at that point load up on these sound options of your standard flour.

Grains:

A great deal of regular nourishment grains are not prompted during fasting for Navratri. For a moment, you can't expend white rice, which is a staple nourishment for the vast majority of the individuals. Be that as it may, don't stress, there are a lot of options for standard rice. You can utilize millet and sabudana as a choice to rice. You can get ready kheer, khichdi, and so forth utilizing these nourishment grains. Vegetables, lentils and rava are likewise not expended during Navratri.

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Updated on05/23/26

This is that time of the year again when Indians like to detox. The Navratri will be celebrated from 18 March 2018 to 25 March 2018. Fasting during this auspicious time is important for your overall body. Below are the foods that one should not consume during the nine-day period.

1. Grains

Wheat, rice, gram flour and corn flour are strongly one should avoid during the course of these nine days. Avoiding them will also help you stay away from gluten foods like wheat which contain the allergy-producing protein during this time period.

2. Salt

Indian dishes are always high on sodium content due to the presence of salt. One should consume Sendha namak during this time because it has low sodium content.

3. Vegetables

Although, a majority of people continue to consume veggies like tomatoes, spinach, potatoes and bottle gourd. Tomatoes are consumed because technically they are a fruit. But garlic and onions are strongly prohibited during the period of nine days.

4. Spices

Spices rule Indian households kitchen. Avoid using gram masala and coriander. One can use sendha namak and chilli powder.

5. Eggs, Alcohol and Non-veg

These are three sins that are prohibited during Navratri. Consumption of eggs, alcohol and non-veg foods is a big no during these nine days. It is also a good way to detox your body when you refrain them because your body doesn't produce any form of heat or toxins.

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