स्रोत

Sources, with dates

No figure without a source line, no source line without a date — and no claim of a review that did not happen.

यह पेज क्या है

यह पेज नामित स्रोतों से संदर्भ आँकड़े प्रकाशित करता है। यह जानकारी है, चिकित्सकीय सलाह नहीं, और यह आपके अपने इतिहास का हिसाब नहीं रख सकती — डॉक्टर रख सकते हैं। स्रोत & हम उनकी समीक्षा कैसे करते हैं →

उपवास हर किसी के लिए सुरक्षित नहीं है। डॉक्टर से बात करें पहले अगर आप गर्भवती हैं या स्तनपान करा रही हैं, आपको डायबिटीज़ है — ख़ासकर अगर आप इंसुलिन या सल्फ़ोनिलयूरिया ले रहे हैं — आपको ईटिंग डिसऑर्डर रहा है, आप बुज़ुर्ग हैं या बच्चे हैं, या नियमित दवा लेते हैं, तो व्रत के दौरान नहीं बल्कि उससे बात करें। यहाँ बताई गई हर परंपरा में उन लोगों के लिए पहले से छूट है जो उपवास नहीं कर सकते। पूरी सूची, और किन बातों का ध्यान रखें →

Food composition

Food composition sources, with what each is used for. CHECKED · JUL 2026
स्रोत	Published	Last checked	What it is used for
इंडियन फ़ूड कंपोज़िशन टेबल्स 2017 Longvah T, Ananthan R, Bhaskarachary K, Venkaiah K. National Institute of Nutrition, ICMR, Hyderabad.	2017	जुलाई 2026	The primary source for every food value on this site that IFCT carries. Available carbohydrate is published directly, so nothing has to be converted.
Nutritive Value of Indian Foods Gopalan C, Rama Sastri BV, Balasubramanian SC. National Institute of Nutrition, ICMR, Hyderabad.	revised editions	जुलाई 2026	The older ICMR–NIN tables, used only where IFCT 2017 has no row and the older analysis does.
FoodData Central, SR Legacy U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service.	SR Legacy release	जुलाई 2026	Used for foods no Indian table carries — buckwheat, water chestnut flour, sago, fox nut. USDA publishes carbohydrate by difference, so fibre is subtracted here and the subtraction is stated on the food's page.
ThaliFacts dataset Sibling property, thali.amit.marketing.	जुलाई 2026	जुलाई 2026	Shared rows for foods both sites carry, so the two can never disagree about what a katori of curd holds.

स्रोत·प्रकाशित व्रत परंपराएँ + IFCT 2017·food composition provenance·समीक्षित जुलाई 2026

Observances

Observances sources, with what each is used for. CHECKED · JUL 2026
स्रोत	Published	Last checked	What it is used for
Published accounts of each observance Reference works and community descriptions of the practice, read against each other.	various	जुलाई 2026	Every observance page is written as commonly observed and attributed to practice, not to authority. Where accounts differ, the page says they differ rather than choosing one.
The panchang itself Your own community's announced panchang or timetable.	local	n/a	Deliberately NOT reproduced here. Dates, sehri, iftar, moonrise and sunset are local and religiously significant; this site publishes none of them and sends you to the correct source.

स्रोत·प्रकाशित व्रत परंपराएँ + IFCT 2017·observances provenance·समीक्षित जुलाई 2026

Safety and physiology

Safety and physiology sources, with what each is used for. CHECKED · JUL 2026
स्रोत	Published	Last checked	What it is used for
General, conservative practice Written to the cautious end of ordinary clinical advice.	n/a	जुलाई 2026	The guides describe well-established, low-controversy ground — hydration, medication timing, protein adequacy, blood-glucose caution — and are phrased as ranges and options, never as a protocol or a dose.
No clinical trial is cited as evidence for an individual claim Stated plainly rather than dressed up.	—	जुलाई 2026	This site does not publish a systematic reading of the fasting literature, and it does not pretend to. Anything that would depend on one is referred to a doctor instead.

स्रोत·प्रकाशित व्रत परंपराएँ + IFCT 2017·safety and physiology provenance·समीक्षित जुलाई 2026

What is deliberately not here

No times. Sehri, iftar, moonrise, sunset and the start and end of any fast are absent by design, and the build refuses to ship a page that renders a clock time outside the personal intermittent-fasting calculator.
No ruling on observance. What your tradition requires is not a question this site can answer, and it does not try. Practice is reported and attributed; where regions differ, the difference is printed rather than resolved.
No point claims on anything clinical. Physiological figures are given as ranges, with the variance named, because a single number implies a precision nobody has for an individual reader.
No claim of medical review. Emitting one in the markup while nobody had reviewed the page would be a lie told to a machine, which is the worst kind.

How the numbers are computed, food by food →

Questions about the sources

Is VratFuel medically reviewed?

No, and it does not claim to be. It publishes food composition figures from named tables with the citation given, and describes observances as commonly observed. Guidance about your own body belongs with a clinician who knows your history.

Is VratFuel a religious authority?

No. Religious observance is not medical advice and it is not this site's to adjudicate. What each vrat traditionally permits is reported and attributed to practice; where traditions differ, the page says they differ rather than flattening them into one correct version.

How often are the sources checked?

The composition tables were last read line by line in the July 2026 audit, which is the date printed on every source line. Observance descriptions are re-read whenever a correction arrives, and corrections about how a practice is described are prioritised above corrections to numbers.

What if a source here is wrong?

Tell me and it will be fixed on the next build, with the correction described rather than quietly applied. That is the entire mechanism — there is no editorial board behind this site and pretending otherwise would be the dishonest part.

स्रोत·प्रकाशित व्रत परंपराएँ + IFCT 2017·व्रत-पालन के विवरण और खाद्य संघटन·समीक्षित जुलाई 2026

प्रथाओं का वर्णन इस रूप में किया गया है: आमतौर पर प्रचलित; रीति-रिवाज परिवार, क्षेत्र, समुदाय और सम्प्रदाय के हिसाब से अलग-अलग होते हैं, और यह साइट इनमें से किसी पर भी कोई प्राधिकरण नहीं है। खाद्य मान Indian Food Composition Tables 2017 (ICMR–NIN), पुरानी ICMR–NIN तालिकाओं, USDA FoodData Central, नामित संघटन अध्ययनों और साझा ThaliFacts डेटासेट से आते हैं, जिन्हें हर बिल्ड पर Atwater फैक्टर्स से मिलाया जाता है। किस भोजन पर कौन-सा स्रोत लागू होता है, यह हर भोजन के साथ दिया गया है, और हर स्रोत के साथ उसकी आख़िरी जाँच की तारीख़ दी गई है. सिर्फ़ सामान्य जानकारी — चिकित्सकीय या धार्मिक मार्गदर्शन नहीं। व्रत हर किसी के लिए सुरक्षित नहीं है, ख़ासकर गर्भावस्था में या डायबिटीज़ और दूसरी स्थितियों में। पहले डॉक्टर से बात करें।

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