Vocal to local: indigenous dietary practices and diversity of wild food plants in Malai

Dietary diversity: The WFPs are the key sources of indigenous food and constitute the bedrock of the dietary diversity of the forest-dependent communities across the globe (Santayana et al. [...] The questions were based on the household interviews and previous studies to capture and fill in the missing information, and to validate the information during the household interviews. [...] The importance of sharing food has been highlighted in studies that are related to the evolution of cooperation and sociality, the social division of labour, and from hunting and gathering to settled agriculture. [...] Multi-functionality and source of resilient food In recent decades, the idea of the multi-functionality of foods and their influence on health has been renewed among the scientific and medical elites. [...] This may pose a threat to the reservoir of diversity that WFPs constitute, to farmers' conservation of traditional foods through use, and to a comprehensive understanding of the role of wild plants have in the health and nutrition of rural populations.