Where It All Began
A grandmother's recipe,
shared with India.
Ammu Foods was born in 2018 in Kruthika's grandmother's kitchen in Madurai — with one jar of avakaya pickle, a copper vessel, and a promise to never use shortcuts.
Our Journey
The First Jar
Kruthika ships her first 12 jars of avakaya pickle to friends in Chennai. Word spreads fast.
The Kitchen Grows
We move into a proper community kitchen in Madurai. Five local women join the team.
40+ Recipes
Snacks, sweets and namkeens join the range. Every recipe still tasted before shipping.
1 Million Homes
Our jars now reach kitchens in every state of India. Still hand-made. Still no shortcuts.
The Ammu Tribe
40+ women employed at fair wages. 100% women-led. And we're just getting started.
What we believe
Slow food is the only real food.
We refuse to add preservatives, artificial colors, or machine-mix our masalas. Every batch is small enough that a real person can taste it before it leaves our kitchen.
We pay our women 30% above the local wage. We source directly from farms in Tamil Nadu. And we ship only what we can make with care.
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