Bengal's Ethnic Sweetmeats – An Unconventional Food: History, Tradition, Culture

Abstract

The enthralling sweet taste that mesmerizes the eastern part of India, or more specifically the undivided Bengal (West Bengal and Bangladesh) is unveiled. The ethnic sweetmeats originated in Bengal varied over their primary ingredients, size, shape, and process of production due to variation in the context of geographical, cultural, and religious beliefs. In total thirty-eight numbers of sweet products that are originated in Bengal are reconnoitered. Nutritional heritage is come across with health-related benefits to mankind; the racial sweetmeats produced in undivided Bengal have crucial medicinal and gastronomical importance. The sweetmeats are basically assimilated within the genealogical and ancestral f Bengali tradition, rituals, and conviction through the cascade of time. The classical and folk processing methods practiced from antediluvian time have a prominent impression on the taste and nutritional comportment of the sweets produced.

Keywords: nutrition, Medicinal value, Traditional, Culture demeanor o