Tea-time namkeen? Swap fried mixture for roasted chivda
A small katori of fried shop namkeen is about 260 kcal and nearly 15 g of fat. Roast your own poha chivda with one teaspoon of oil and you get the same crunch for about 195 kcal and roughly half the fat.
12 Jul 2026 · Burnie Academy
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It is tea time. You reach for the namkeen dabba. That shiny shop mixture is crunchy and salty, but most of its calories come from the oil it was fried in. The good news: you can roast poha at home with a tiny bit of oil and still get the crunch you want.
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