Made by hand · Banda, UP
Small-batch, sun-dried, stone-ground fruit powders from the heart of Banda. Nothing added. Nothing taken away.
Single-ingredient where the product is single-ingredient. One churna where it isn't.
Indian jujube, sun-dried for the classic Banda summer cooler.
₹ 249
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Wood apple, finely stone-ground for drinks and chutneys.
₹ 249
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Wood apple in chunky pulp form — the traditional preparation, 250g jar.
₹ 399
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A Bundelkhandi digestive churna for after a meal.
₹ 269
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From the founders
“We started RMKAAV because the Banda we grew up in — its kaitha trees, its sun-dried churnas, its grandmother-recipes — was quietly disappearing from store shelves. So we put it in a jar.”
Banda district, Uttar Pradesh — the heart of Bundelkhand.
Banda is dry, sun-soaked, and generous to two fruits in particular — the kaitha (wood apple) that ripens slow on hardy trees, and the ber (Indian jujube) that families dry on rooftops to keep through summer. For generations these fruits have lived in regional kitchens as churnas, sherbets, chutneys and after-meal pinches.
The recipes were never written down. They lived in mothers and aunts, in the dust of grindstones and the rhythm of monsoon. We collected them, kept them honest, and put them in jars — so the kitchen of Banda could travel beyond it.
Indian jujube. The fruit our grandmothers turned into Birchun for the summer.
Wood apple. The base of our Kaitha Powder, Guda, and Buknu churna.
Where every jar is sourced, dried, ground and packed by hand.
Four steps. Same as a hundred years ago. Same as last week.
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Farmers we've known for years bring the fruit at peak ripeness. We accept only what we'd eat at home.
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Open trays, direct sun, three to five days. No dehydrators, no shortcuts — the kind of patience the fruit asks for.
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Slow grinding keeps the powder cool and the aroma intact. Industrial mills heat the fruit; ours doesn't.
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Sealed in small batches, labelled, and shipped from our Banda kitchen — never from a third-party warehouse.
And what doesn't.
We dry our fruit the way Bundelkhand has dried fruit for centuries — in open trays, under direct sun. It takes days, not minutes.
A slower process that doesn't generate heat. The result smells like the fruit, not like a processed product.
Every batch traces back to a small group of farmers we know in Banda district. No anonymous wholesale supply chains.
No preservatives, no fillers, no anti-caking agents, no added sugar. Single-ingredient where the product is single-ingredient.
Six honest differences. No marketing hand-waving.
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Birchun Powder
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Summer drink
1 tsp Birchun + cold water + a pinch of black salt. The Banda summer drink.
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Side dish
Mix Kaitha Powder with jaggery and a pinch of cumin. Eat with paratha.
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After meals
Half a teaspoon of Buknu, chewed slow, after a heavy meal. The grandmother fix.
See Buknu →Six questions we hear most often.
Yes — the three single-ingredient jars (Birchun, Kaitha Powder, Kaitha Guda) contain only the named fruit. Kaitha Buknu is a traditional Bundelkhandi churna with wood apple as the base, blended with hing, ajwain, jeera, kala namak and other carminative spices. No preservatives, no anti-caking agents, no added sugar in any of our products.
Stored in a cool, dry place with the lid sealed, our jars stay best for the date printed on the jar (typically 9–12 months from packing). Refrigeration isn't required, but it doesn't hurt during peak summer.
Birchun is most often mixed with cold water and a pinch of black salt as a summer drink. Kaitha goes into chutneys, lassi, or warm-water sips. Buknu is taken as a half-teaspoon pinch after a meal, or sprinkled on cooked vegetables. See our recipe ideas above for the basics, and each product page for more.
We ship pan-India. Metro cities typically arrive in 2–4 working days; non-metro and remote pin codes take 4–10 working days. Order tracking is sent over WhatsApp and email. We don't ship internationally yet. Full details on the shipping policy.
Sealed, unopened jars can be returned within 7 days of delivery for a full refund. Once a jar is opened, food-safety rules mean we can't accept it back. If a jar arrives damaged or wrong, message us within 48 hours with a photo and we'll replace it. See refund policy.
No. Our jars are traditional food products, not medicines or licensed Ayurvedic supplements. The fruits and spices have a long history of use in Indian kitchens and traditional preparations, but we make no medical claims. If you are pregnant, nursing, on medication, or planning to give the products to a child, please consult your doctor first.
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