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Our products are 100% free of chemical preservatives and other additives. We also do not fry our products or use added oil. This makes them great for health! It also sometimes leads to lower shelf lives or some particular ways to store them. Do take a look at the mentioned shelf life while ordering your products. Also, please read more for instructions on best ways to store your products.

Breads:

At room temperature, store in a paper bag, cloth or basket and not an airtight container. Slice only when you are ready to eat them in order to not dry them out and consume within 3 days.

If you would like to extend the shelf life of your breads, please slice and freeze it. This will enable you to store for more than a month. Pull it out and defrost as needed. If you refrigerate, the bread will dry out.

Snacks:

Snacks delivered in paper bags are stored in airtight containers till your doorstep. Once opened please ensure they are stored in airtight containers always to retain their crunchiness for the shelf life of the product. If you are buying the snacks in glass jars, yay! Thank you for using reusables. Feel free to store.

Sweets:

Our sweets tend to have a pretty high shelf life because there is no added water in them. They are usually a mixture of dry fruits, nuts, dates and spices. They last for over a month. Just store in a dry closed jar and enjoy!

Condiments:

Do refrigerate on arrival and consume within the stated shelf life. If you want to preserve it for longer, feel free to freeze it in batches.

Unfortunately, unhealthy ingredients and chemical farming are subsidized by the govt. Therefore, such ingredients are cheaper.

Your health is of foremost importance to us. We don't use cheaper ingredients like sugar, Maida, oil etc...instead we use chemical-free whole grains, dates, and whole nut butters etc to make our products.

We need a larger quantity of ingredients when we bake our snacks. For eg., to make 200 g of deep friend snack you would need a lesser quantity of ingredients, as oil accounts for a lot of the weight whereas when we bake we need more than 200 g of ingredients as baking removes moisture from the ingredients to give it the same crunchiness as a deep fried snack.

We have ethical sourcing practices, paying our partner farmers a very fair price for their products, empowering them to grow chemical free.

Our team members are also well supported and paid respectably to ensure that they and their families are able to sustain themselves.

All Sampoorna Ahara initiatives are social enterprises. This means that no one person profits from them. All profits go towards growing the impact further and enabling more people to eat healthy and cook healthy.

Proudly so! We are rather strict about making ethical choices that do not impact the planet negatively as well as reaping the benefits of consuming plant based products.

No. Honey is an animal product and isn't good for health either. It converts to blood sugar a lot faster than something like whole dates that also has fiber.

We don’t use any white cane sugar/beet sugar or syrup, or any other form of refined sugar that will spike your blood sugar levels too fast.

Most of our sweet products are sweetened with dates or other whole fruits where we retain the fiber instead of extracting just the sugars.

Some products have a small amount of Erythritol in it. For more information on this, please click here. We are only using this if the product page mentions it in ingredients.

Erythritol is a naturally derived sweetener that unlike cane sugar, coconut sugar or jaggery has zero calories and doesn't impact one's health in any adverse way when used appropriately like we do. Also, please note that most of our items that are using erythritol can be made without it on request. They will just be a little denser due to the increased quantity of dates.

We use less than 10g per serving if we are using this sweetener.

We try our best to be sustainable. Where we can, we use reusables or fully compostable material. Right down to the backs of our stickers and where we source our materials from. We therefore do not seal in plastic. For information on how safe this is, please see our message on what we are doing for the covid pandemic.

If you are interested in learning how to bake these breads, feel free to write to us at specials@sampoornaahara.com for information on when our workshops happen.

In the meanwhile, here are a few interesting bits of information. Sourdough refers to a way of fermentation. It is slower than normal bread baking. Our breads have fermented for a minimum of 10 hours before we bake them.

They are a little sourer, and therefore a lot more flavourful than your average loaf of bread. Also, since we use 100% whole grain, our breads are hearty and filling. Also, because we use whole dates as our major sweetener and use whole grains to make our breads and cakes, they keep them a little denser with all the healthy fiber intact. They taste great and more importantly leave you feeling great.

Once we have your order, we coordinate with the various production teams to confirm the next possible date. The delivery team then identifies the next available delivery slot for you. Our aim is to ensure the products reach you as quickly as possible after production. Our delivery staff bring these products to your doorstep with as much care as they are made with.

We usually deliver within 2-4 days of your order, however, it can sometimes take up to 7 days. Do let us know in the order notes if you need it on a particular day and we will try to make that happen.

We do not allow visits to the kitchen or bakery right now for hygiene concerns.

Please let us know in your comments when you place your order. We will take extra precautions with your products. However, if you have a severe allergy please write to us before ordering to check if your desired products can be made suitably.

We bake our snacks at low temperatures using whole grains, lentils and spices and peanut butter instead of using oil.

Yes, if you choose to, please email doctor@samporrnaahara.com and we shall pick up untampered glass jars on your next order delivery. We will be deducting a small cost for cleaning and reuse of the bottles and provide you coupons for the pending bottle cost which you can use for your subsequent purchase with us.

We source most of our products from our sister enterprise (www.farmfreshbangalore.com). They work with chemical free and natural farmers. Sometimes, our ingredients are sourced from certified organic producers, but more often than not, they come from trusted small holder farms who don’t use chemicals, but also can’t apply for certification because of the size of their farms or for economic reasons.

We have WFPB meals and breakfast jars delivered twice a day all over Bangalore city.

Our sweets are made mainly with nuts, dates and spices.

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