Nature: Chuka veggies or choppy vegetables look like spinach. Its taste is sour because many people say it is a leafy vegetable. It is a perennial and light green colored plant. The stem of it is juicy. It is found in different parts of Assam and is also cultivated.
Qualities: It affects our well-being in many ways such as good skin, increasing eyesight, keeping nerves strong, increasing blood cells, preventing heart disease, muscle relaxing, eliminating constipation, strengthening the body, strengthening bones etc. Succulents destroy vata diseases, kapha, pitta etc. in our body. It is easily digestible by eating dried vegetables. Eating this vegetable increases the appetite i.e. it removes distaste. Eliminates airborne diseases. It is beneficial to mix sugar with sugar for gallbladder.
Cooking style: Any fish is eaten with a sour oven. Apart from this, cutten greens are used as sour in any month’s anja. It is good to eat anja mixed with other vegetables. Small potatoes can also be eaten with anja.