Ranita Uppal & The Turtle Box

                                           

Turtle Box was born from the union of Ranita’s love for food and travel. Ranita comes from a fusion of two food cultures, being a Bengali married to a Punjabi. Daily experiments with food and tweaking old recipes is a daily affair in her kitchen.

Having travelled the world with her job at McKinsey, Ranita was busy bringing up her kids in New Delhi when she felt the urge to do something new – and what could be more exciting than combining travel experiences with food?

One sleepless night before Diwali, when the family was trying to decide what to gift friends for Diwali and didn’t want to get stuck with the usual mithai, chocolates and nuts, Ranita suddenly thought of Turkish sweets, and immediately had the urge to experiment. Poppy seeds came to mind, as did mixed nuts in honey – and just like that the first flavour was created. It became a super hit amongst family and friends. And thus, began her quest to curate new flavours to satiate her well-travelled palate.

On one of her trips, she picked up a small glass turtle as a souvenir from Murano after being mesmerized by its glass blowers. It marked the beginning of her turtle collections; not realizing that her love for turtles would give a name to her new venture. Since she started four years back, Ranita has turned her 65-year-old mother-in-law into a production manager at Turtle Box, because … It’s never too late to start.

Turtle Box uses mostly natural sweeteners like honey, maple syrup, date syrup and jaggery. When they need sugar, they try to use healthier variants like brown sugar, coconut sugar or sulphur-free sugar. Their aim is to keep the health benefits of the nuts and dry fruits intact. Their uniqueness lies in the fact that from cutting to chopping to mixing to grinding, everything is handmade to order, allowing them to customize everything down to the flavour.

Here’s a sneak peek into some of their most popular products:

Mixed nuts in honey and poppy seeds                                                                                                  

Maple glazed walnuts                                                                                                                                                   

Dates with pista and cardamom

Chatpatta fig and apricot                            

Saffron infused aam papad with pista   

Pink peppercorn paprika mixed nuts                                                                                                                     

If you are looking to try out global flavours, be it pink peppercorn from Brazil, or dates from Saudi Arabia or Kithul syrup from Sri Lanka, Turtle Box is the place to go!

Reach them on

https://www.instagram.com/turtle.box/

https://www.instagram.com/ranitauppal/

www.turtlebox.in

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