How vanaspati is retracing its route to the great Indian kitchen
Vanaspati was controversial in India because it competed with ghee, which has a deep place in Indian culture. But ghee is costly, and vanaspati was consumed by people who could not afford it.
Synopsis
Dalda is the best-known vanaspati, the desi term for the manufactured solid fats broadly called margarine in the West.
Analysing garbage is an accepted technique of tracking food brands. And after a busy tourist weekend, discarded packaging on Goa’s beaches gives one a good idea of which snacks are popular.I recently found something surprising floating in a tidal pool. The empty sachet had familiar yellow and green colours and a palm tree logo I hadn’t seen in a while. It was for Dalda, the vegetable fat once sold by Unilever and one of the first Indian brands
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