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Saumya Tandon's Morning Drink: A Simple Yet Powerful Trio for Health
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In Short: Actress Saumya Tandon shares her daily routine of ghee, turmeric, and black pepper to boost metabolic health.

Actress Saumya Tandon starts her day with a tablespoon of ghee, a pinch of turmeric (haldi), and black pepper, according to a recent Instagram reel she shared. This simple morning drink, she claims, helps in staying fit and maintaining a healthy metabolism.
In her caption, Tandon explains, 'You are what you eat. And since everyone keeps saying, 'I diet or asks, 'What do I eat to stay fit (slim, etc.)', I actually never diet. I have a few good habits that help me. 1. One Tablespoon ghee with turmeric and black pepper powder.
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- “Combined with ghee’s fat content, which helps dissolve curcumin since it is fat soluble, this trio genuinely enhances bioavailability far more than turmeric with water or milk alone,” she tells indianexpress.com.
- According to Malhotra, best practice lies in taking “half to one teaspoon of ghee with a quarter teaspoon turmeric and a pinch of black pepper”, mixed together and taken with warm water.
- Saumya Tandon, who amazed us with her powerful performance as Ulfat in Dhurandhar, swears by a simple 3-ingredient concoction to power her metabolic health.
- Kanikka Malhotra, Consultant Dietician & Diabetes Educator, says that ghee, haldi and black pepper on an empty stomach might be trending as a “gut healing” ritual, but the real story is in the chemistry, and it is more nuanced than most reels suggest.
Sources
- The Indian Expresslink
