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No single dal is best for health, and the ICMR-NIN tables show why: moong dal carries 9.37 g of dietary fibre per 100 g while whole kala chana carries 25.22 g. Masoor dal publishes the least raffinose-family sugar of the common split dals, urad dal the most. Because fibre, husk and indigestible sugars rank the dals in three different orders, rotating three or four across a week covers more ground than choosing a winner.
One kilogram of atta makes about 25 to 33 rotis of the usual household size, at 30 to 40 g of dry atta each. Thin phulkas rolled to 13 cm push the count past 40. Thick 18 cm rotis pull it down to about 20. Extra water changes how soft the dough is, never how many rotis come out of the pack, because the count is fixed by the dry flour.
Most homemade plant feeds are far weaker than the recipe suggests. A fermented mustard cake feed, 100 g of cake to a litre of water and diluted before use, works out at roughly 470 mg of nitrogen per applied litre. Rice rinse water measures about 160 mg. Banana peel water has never been measured. Eggshells supply calcium only, and coarse pieces barely react at all.
Match the treatment to the pest rather than buying one bottle for everything. Aphids sit exposed on leaf undersides and come off with a water jet and insecticidal soap. Mealybugs hide under wax in leaf joints, where soap runs off and a cotton swab of isopropyl alcohol does the work. White growth on pot soil is usually a decomposer fungus, not a pest. Neem is a slow follow-up, never a knockdown.
Raw kala chana carries 18.77 g of protein, 25.22 g of fibre and about 287 kcal per 100 g on India's own composition tables. Boiled, the same 100 g holds about 8.9 g of protein and 164 kcal because cooked chana is mostly water. Published figures disagree because each page picks a different state and a different table without saying which. One 150 ml katori of boiled chana carries roughly 9 g of protein.
Canola and mustard oil come from related Brassica plants, but canola was bred to carry under 2% erucic acid, while ordinary mustard oil carries around 41 g per 100 g. Canola wins the erucic column outright and is also higher in oleic acid. Mustard oil brings the pungency Indian tadka and pickling rely on, and a high oleic seed such as Raya Hisar 1706 halves the erucic figure without reaching canola's level.
