Bio Basics Blog

Thanga Samba (Thangam gold or of golden hue) and Samba of the paddy season that bestows the plenty on the Kaveri delta paddy farmers. Tamil Nadu, t...

Oh yes! We love our white rices too!   You may be wondering about it since we feature them rarely on our feed. That's because most of the Bio Basic...

Barley, a grain like wheat, looks like wheat but a hulled grain with gluten but is not wheat.  What is a hulled grain? These are grains that have a...

Our favourite Illupai poo Samba is back in Bio Basics. Harvested during January 2022, aged and a small batch freshly milled. The delightful, nutrit...

Pranav's ( Loafer &Co) beautiful bread took me back to how Kalamalli phulo rice, my favourite black rice, came to Bio Basics.  The beautiful, s...

 We were born to parents who left the villages to work and live in the city. They left their share of land to their farmer siblings or sold it. One...

   If you ask anyone about Kerala red rice the top response would be Kerala Matta. People would go through our long list of Kerala rice varieties, ...

   Kunju kunju - is that even a name for rice?  What does it mean?    When Illias, our Kuruva farmer, decided to put part of his land under a new K...

   Olan - one of the favoured preparations in a Kerala sadya and loved with normal lunches.    The delicate Kerala Olan is seemingly an unlikely pa...

   Sweeteners, the most loved of flavors, nature bestows upon us a variety of it- from crops, from trees, from bees. These carry sweetness with the...

   When moringa powder became a thing I was quite sceptical wondering why we need the dried powder or dried leaves when this tree grows everywhere ...