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Mathri and chai - a quiet daily calorie habit

Mathri and chai - a quiet daily calorie habit

Two fried mathris with sweet chai is a normal tea-time habit that quietly adds up to about 270 kcal a day, or roughly 1,880 kcal a week on top of your meals. Bake your mathris and ease the sugar in your chai, and the same ritual drops to about 120 kcal a day.

12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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Four o'clock rolls around. The mathri tin comes out. The chai simmers with milk and sugar. Two flaky discs and a hot cup - that is the tea-time ritual in so many Indian homes. It feels small and harmless. But the deep fry and the sugar quietly stack calories you never count. Let us add them up honestly.

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