Food is the most essential requirement for the sustenance of human life. Eating healthy food makes a huge
impact in promoting and maintaining of good health in today, tomorrow and future. Food is necessary for both health
and taste. This further depends on the quality of raw materials and cooking utensils. Whenever we are concerned for
the utensils, we can see our ancestors were used to cook in metal like cast iron, gold, silver, copper, brass, clay, etc.
Those were added therapeutic value in cooking food. For example, food cooked in golden vessels for immunity
benefiting effect. Similarly using silver vessels shows germicidal action on food. An iron vessel also plays a great
role in increasing iron content in the food. Copper- rich foods boost collagen. Cooking in clay vessels is having great
importance because it retains the nutrition of the food which is generally lost in other type of vessels. So, by using
these kinds of vessels helps in improving the nutritional value of food, on the other hand, the type of vessels like
aluminum, plastic, stainless steel, different metal alloys etc., that we are using now-a-days is creating health hazards.
The old cooking utensils are missing today we need to give a proper look-cut on come back of old utensils. Hence
this article makes an attempt to reintroduce the ancient vessels for cooking, storing, and serving food for promoting
better health.
Keywords: Ancient vessel, Patra, Food, Ayurveda.
