Amarnath Yatra: No Pakoras, No Samosas. Check List of Foods Items Allowed on Annual Pilgrimage

Before you start the Amarnath Yatra, a 14-kilometer trek, check the list of banned food items and the items that you are allowed to carry on the pilgrimage.
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Updated Jun 9, 2023 | 06:33 PM IST

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Amarnath Yatra: No Pakoras, No Samosas. Check List of Foods Items Allowed on Annual Pilgrimage

Amarnath Yatra: No Pakoras, No Samosas. Check List of Foods Items Allowed on Annual Pilgrimage

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Ahead of the commencement of the Amarnath Yatra, Amarnath Shrine Board has released a health advisory including a list of prohibited food items for the pilgrimage, such as jalebi, halwa, pooris, and others. The 62-day-long annual pilgrimage to the holy cave shrine of Amarnath, located at a height of 3,880 metres in the south Kashmir Himalayas, will begin on July 1 and continue till August 31. Before you start the Amarnath Yatra, a 14-kilometer trek, check the list of banned food items and the items that you are allowed to carry on the pilgrimage.
Banned Food Items
  • All non-veg foods
  • Alcohol
  • Tobacco
  • Gutka
  • Pan masala
  • Smoking and other intoxicants.
  • Heavy pullav, fried-rice.
  • Poori
  • Bathura
  • Pizza
  • Burger
  • Stuffed parantha
  • Dosa and fried-roti
  • Bread with butter
  • Cream based food
  • Pickle
  • Chutney
  • Fried papad
  • Chowmein (noodles) and all other fried or fast food.
  • Cold drinks and karrah.
  • Halwa
  • Jalebi
  • Gulab jamun
  • Laddu,
  • Khoya burfi
  • Rasgulla
  • Crunchy snacks (high in fat and salts) chips /
  • Kurkure
  • Matthi
  • Namkeen mixture
  • Pakora
  • Samosa
  • Fried dry fruits and all other deep fried items.

Allowed Food Item

  • Cereals
  • Pulses
  • Green vegetables
  • Potato
  • Saag,
  • Nutrela soya chunks
  • Besan curry
  • Plain dal
  • Green salad
  • Fruits and sprouts
  • Plain rice
  • Zeera rice
  • Khichri
  • Nutrela rice.
  • Roti / phulka,
  • Dal roti,
  • Missi roti,
  • Makki ki roti (unfried, without oil/butter),
  • Tandoori roti, bread / kulcha / double roti
  • Rusk
  • Chocolate
  • Biscuits
  • Roasted chana and jaggery
  • Sambar
  • Idli
  • Uttapam
  • Poha
  • Vegetable sandwich (without cream/butter/cheese)
  • Bread jam
  • Kashmiri nan (girda)
  • Steamed dumplings (vegetable momos).
  • Herbal tea
  • Coffee
  • Low-fat curd
  • Sharbat
  • Lemon squash / water
  • Low-fat milk
  • Fruit juice
  • Vegetable soup
  • Mineral water
  • Glucose (in standard packet form)
  • Kheer (rice/sabudana)
  • White oats (daliya)
  • Figs
  • Raisins
  • Apricots
  • Other dry fruits (only roasted/raw)
  • Low-fat milk sawain
  • Honey
  • Boiled sweets (candy)
  • Roasted papad
  • Khakra
  • Til ka ladoo
  • Dhokla
  • Chikki (guchak)
  • Rewari
  • Phulian makhane
  • Murmura
  • Dry petha
  • Amla muraba
  • Fruit muraba
  • Green coconut
Meanwhile, to avoid any incident like last year's when 16 people were killed after flash floods triggered by heavy rain near the shrine, the National Disaster Response Force has started identifying ideal locations for setting up pilgrim camps keeping in mind any possible unforeseen natural disaster. The Indian Air Force helicopters are expected to be deployed to carry out aerial sorties in the upper reaches of the holy cave to check for glacial events and the formation of lakes that may trigger flash floods downhill.
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