Illustration of a woman hand pounding rice outside a thatched village home, with the words: Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.
vanakkam, welcome to

GR Foods — food the way our grandmothers made it.

Hand pounded heirloom rice, millets, wood pressed oils, palm jaggery and native snacks — honestly priced and delivered free across Nagercoil.

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Fresh from nature

Illustration of bullocks and a traditional rice pounding lever
how it all began…
Heaps of hand pounded rice with an Ethnic Foods pack
…and today
a little about us

Thirty years in the rice field.

Our street in Samarasa Veethi once pounded its own paddy. When polishers arrived, the bran disappeared — and with it, our health. In 2000 we went back to hand pounding, and never looked back.

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why does it matter?

Quality food, quality life

No. 1

Traditional

Hand pounding keeps the bran — and the fibre, B-vitamins and minerals that polishing strips away.

No. 2

Nature friendly

Grown and processed the slow way, with no chemical polish and no shortcuts in our kitchens.

No. 3

Builds immunity

Millets, chekku oils and karupatti nourish the body daily and keep lifestyle diseases away.

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Special items

Health Drinks

Health Booster Plus

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Health Drinks

Herbal Health Drink

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kind words from our customers
Healthy products — my family has completely switched to their hand pound rice.
— Customer, Nagercoil
Good quality and a very reasonable price. The chekku oils taste like childhood.
— Customer, Kottar
Best natural product suppliers in the field. Honest people, honest food.
— Customer, Kanyakumari
The Organic Times · Tamil Nadu

G. Nammalvar கோ. நம்மாழ்வார்

An organic and natural scientist gifted to our world. He inspired a generation of youngsters and farmers to lead the organic movement in Tamil Nadu and beyond — and he is the inspiration behind everything we do.

Ready to eat the way our elders did?

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