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rmhealth - IMG-20241207-WA0007.jpg: In 2016, working mothers Meghana Narayan (right) and Shauravi Malik established Slurrp Farm, a packaged multigrain food company for children, inspired by their own need to feed their kids nutritious meals more conveniently. Photo courtesy: Wholsum Foods

Working mothers Meghana Narayan (right) and Shauravi Malik established Slurrp Farm, a health food company for children, in 2016.

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When her daughter was old enough to eat solid food, management consultant Meghana Narayan prowled department stores for healthy children’s meals, reading the labels on all the packaged baby foods. 

“I called up my mother from one of the stores. I was afraid of feeding my daughter something wrong that would harm her,” said Ms Narayan, 47.

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