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Since November last year, <a href="https://www.zomato.com/ncr/culinate-sector-53-noida">Culinate</a>, a delivery joint owned by <keyword id="125928" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Rajiv-Kumar">Rajiv Kumar</keyword> has been changing the way <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=noida&amp;sortorder=effectivedate">Noida </a>views healthy food. Apart from offering affordable and exotic healthy options for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the folks at <keyword id="3697984" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="culinate">Culinate</keyword> also make it a point to prioritise hygiene in their kitchen and eco-friendly packaging in their deliveries. 
 The kitchen, which also doubles up as Kumar’s office is a small space in <keyword id="18858" type="COMPANY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Noida">Noida</keyword>’s Sector 53, but as we found has a big heart. “The idea behind Culinate was to prove that it is possible to offer nutritious food made of healthy ingredients that can be downright delicious too. I wanted something that an office-goer would want to have, even in their car.” says Kumar, who got his cousin, who is a nutritionist on board to help them decide on the menu and the portion sizes. 
 
“My target audience are office goers in the 22-45 age bracket. Anyone who’s fond of eating exotic healthy food or is largely health-conscious,” he further adds. The three most popular dishes on their menu are the Portuguese Platter, Breakfast on Thames (Culinate’s take on the English Breakfast) and their signature Waffles and Pancakes. Culinate also makes their own juices. 
 
 
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Culinate delivers to all the sectors in Noida and takes an average time of 60 minutes to bring the dish to your doorstep. The slightly longer transporation time is attributed to the widespread ongoing construction in Noida which makes reaching places a slight issue. At the moment, they see upto 50 deliveries a day which results in one delivery boy having to do 12 deliveries throughout the course of the day. However, to ensure their safety, there are speed governors in place on their bikes. No delivery boy can go beyond 40 kms per hour. 
 
Kumar is very particular about two things at Culinate- hygiene and nutrition. As a result, he ensures that the kitchen is cleaned thrice a day, discourages the use of chemicals for cleaning the kitchen and is one of the only places that practises a 7-step washing process for their vegetables and meats. 
 
By his own admission, Rajiv says that it was very early on that had made up his mind to go all the way when it came to nutrition, regardless of the added expenditure. As a result, Culinate currently uses 60% of organic vegetables to prepare their dishes while 40% of their grains are also organically sourced- a number Kumar hopes will keep on growing. Additionally, they don’t use any packaged sauces in their dishes and substitutes with healthier alternatives- all made inhouse. For example, their mayonnaise is an in-house preparation made from greek yoghurt and cashews, which has one-tenth the calories as regular mayonnaise does. 
 
However, what deserves the maximum praise is their packaging. “As I cannot speak to my customer in person, what assumes utmost importance is my packaging. That is the customer’s first impression of my food,” Kumar replies, when asked the reason behind prioritising packaging. 
 
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Culinate’s breakfast tray in which all their breakfast options are served is made of sugarcane kernels and is totally environment-friendly. To ensure that your breakfast is hot when it reaches you, the team then outs the tray inside a thermal bag which can maintain its temperature for three hours. During winter, there is an additional hot bag put inside to keep the dish warm.&#xa0; Moreover, Culinate also has different bowls for hot and cold orders. For example, the cold bowl is not microwavable.&#xa0; There’s more- none of their dishes contain MSG or ajino moto. Their breads are diabetic friendly and they have gone as far as ensuring that even their desserts are healthy. 
 
One look at his numbers and you can conclude that his experiments have worked out in his favour. Currently, 80% of all orders are by repeat customers and the number of orders Culinate receives on a regular basis keeps on increasing.

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startup in Noida is delivering the most healthy food you can imagine

<div class="image-container float_right" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/51680335eab8eaab32000004-600-450/caen-contee-1.jpg?maxX=400" border="0" alt="caen contee" width="400" /></div>CulinationCaen Contee</div>Caen Contee learned how to cook from his mother.
As a young boy, just seven years old, he watched her prepare breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day from their home kitchen in Brazil for a squad of family members. 
"That really was the beginning seed for me of not only starting a passion for food, but also an investigation," Contee said at a <a href="http://vimeo.com/54638470">Catalyst conference last year</a>.
Today, Contee is the co-founder and CEO of Culination, a new kind of <keyword id="27178" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="cooking">cooking</keyword> website that combines recipes with step-by-step instructional videos, taught by experts in the food and beverage industries. 
"The problem with traditional cookbooks is that they usually only show pictures of the end-product," Contee explained to Business Insider over a video chat. 
A glamour shot of Coq au Vin, for example, doesn't offer many visual clues about how to sauté mushrooms until they're perfectly browned, or braise chicken so it's just the right tenderness. 
Culination, now in private alpha, is a full-service cookbook — one that will not only tell you what to cook and how to cook it, but also how to customize recipes to fit your <keyword id="6358230" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="diet">diet</keyword> needs. 
That could mean filtering recipes based on personal information about specific allergies or recommending ingredient substitutions.
Eventually, the site will be voice-activated so you don't have to touch a screen while your hands are, say, covered in messy egg yolk. 
<div class="image-container float_right click-to-enlarge" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><a title_source="Culination" title_caption="Culination provides step-by-step video cooking lessons." class="zoomin" href="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5166d515eab8ea1318000008-960/culination-responsive-lesson-interface.png"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5166d515eab8ea1318000008-1280-720/culination-responsive-lesson-interface.png" border="0" alt="culination responsive lesson interface" width="400" /></a></div>CulinationCulination provides step-by-step video cooking lessons.</div>
The goal is to expand the culinary skill set of home cooks, while bridging the gap between food and <keyword id="6354750" type="CITY" weightage="60" keywordseo="health">health</keyword> — an idea that was shaped by Caen's own experiences. 
Caen was heavy as a teenager. He weighed 265 pounds in high school, but made it his goal to slim down before college. The entrepreneur lost about 95 pounds through traditional Chinese nutrition. Meanwhile, he developed his cooking talent by working in restaurants and teaching cooking classes. 
Culination represents the culmination of Caen's personal triumphs and desire to infiltrate our fast-food culture.
The website launched a crowdfunding campaign on <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/culination--9" target="_blank">Indiegogo</a> this week. It will be available to the public later this year. 
<div class="image-container float_left click-to-enlarge" style="width:400px"><div class="image"><a title_source="Culination " title_caption="The focus is on healthy, sustainable foods. " class="zoomin" href="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5166d58eeab8ea5d1300000e-960/culination-request-platform.png"><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/5166d58eeab8ea5d1300000e-896-720/culination-request-platform.png" border="0" alt="culination request platform" width="400" style="color: #222222; line-height: 22.5px;" /></a></div>Culination The focus is on healthy, sustainable foods. </div>
The team recruited health expert Cyrus Khambatta, who has a Ph.d in molecular and biochemical nutrition from UC Berkeley, to author nutrition lessons that are easy for a general audience to digest. He will be holding a Q&amp;A session on the Indiegogo page on Friday, April 12, from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m EDT. 
"We want to provide a level of understandable, scientific, credible information," said Contee.
Early users will have access to roughly 100 lessons that are housed in Culination's "Pantry"; the company's fancy term for a recipe index. 
From there, the content will largely be user-directed. Culination will customize or create content for users based on how much money they are willing to contribute. Site-wide interest of specific topics or cuisines will drive what videos get produced. A strong interest in Mediterranean food, for example, will result in more videos that demonstrate how to cook Mediterranean dishes. 
"Entire sections of videos will be devoted to things like weight gain and weight loss," Khambatta told me over the phone. "We're not necessarily trying to eliminate one type of food, or market a diet to vegetarians or vegans. The recipes will include meat, gluten and lactose, but we want to provide people with the education about what those ingredients do in their bodies," he said.

Culination Is A Virtual Cookbook That Will Help You Eat Healthier

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