In 2025, Sharadiya Navratri starts on Monday, September 22, and is celebrated for a period of nine days until Vijayadashami day on October 2. The day of fasting is observed in the Hindu month of Ashvina, and some choose fasting strictly for all the days, while others observe fasting for important days, mostly the 1st, 5th and last according to personal or regional customs.

What are Navratri Foods Allowed During Fasting?

The options for consumption for the devotees keeping fasts are fresh fruits, milk, yogurt, paneer other dairy preparations, buttermilk and lassi. Amongst flours, buckwheat flour (kuttu), water chestnut flour (singhara) and amaranth flour (rajgira) figure predominantly.

The root vegetables that are widely accepted include potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkin, raw bananas and

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