• Free delivery on orders above $49
  • COD available
  • Ships from Exton, PA
  • Wooden-pressed oils
  • Freshly roasted podis
  • Free delivery on orders above $49
  • COD available
  • Ships from Exton, PA
  • Wooden-pressed oils
  • Freshly roasted podis
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Sastra Pure Cow Ghee

Clarified butter, from 100 ml to 16 L

  • Lactose free
  • Gluten free
  • High smoke point
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Sastra Pure Cow Ghee jar, tin and tub with ven pongal, laddoos and marigolds

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Kitchen basics, the old way

Old recipes deserve old-fashioned ingredients.

Wood-pressed oils, freshly roasted podis and pure cow ghee. Made in India, shipped from our shop in Exton, PA.

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Diwali · 8 November

Pure ghee for every Diwali sweet

Sastra Pure Cow Ghee and palm-jaggery sweets, shipped from Exton, PA.

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Three jars of Sastra Pure Cow Ghee

Aisle · Podis & spices

The podi shelf your idli has been missing

  • Freshly roasted, South Indian style
  • No artificial colours, no preservatives
  • 200 g jars: Idli, Paruppu and Sesame
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Mithra Idli, Paruppu and Sesame podi jars on a pantry shelf with idlis

Our philosophy

Let food remain as close to nature as possible.

Long before complicated ingredient lists became common, food was simple.

Grains were grains.
Oil carried the natural aroma of its seeds.
Ghee carried the richness of milk and butter.

Traditional foods were made from ingredients families knew and trusted.

At Mithra Whole Foods, we believe there is something valuable in that simplicity.

Our philosophy is not about changing food into something more.
It is about protecting what is already naturally there.

Why Mithra

Traditional food, handled with care

From seed to bottle

Pressed slowly in wood, bottled with nothing added

Mithra sesame oil is cold pressed in a traditional wooden chekku, then bottled unrefined, with no chemicals and no additives.

  1. 1Sesame seeds
  2. 2Wooden chekku
  3. 3Cold pressed
  4. 4Filtered
  5. 5Bottled unrefined
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Why Mithra?

Because choosing food is choosing what becomes part of your family.

Food is one of the few things we choose for ourselves and our families every single day.

That makes every ingredient important.

We carefully select our products with a simple question in mind:

“Would we be happy to serve this to our own family?”

That question guides the way we think about ingredients, processing, purity and quality.

Because your family deserves the same care we expect for ours.

Aisle · Ghee

One ghee, three sizes for every kitchen

  • Pure cow ghee (clarified butter)
  • Lactose free and gluten free
  • 100 ml jar, 1 L tin, or the 16 L tub for big kitchens
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Sastra ghee jar, tin and tub on a kitchen counter beside a plate of dosas

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Good reasons to stock up

  • Free delivery

    Free delivery on orders over $49

    Delivered anywhere in the US. Cash on delivery available.

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  • 3 sizes

    Sastra Pure Cow Ghee from $1.99

    100 ml jar, 1 L tin, or the 16 L tub for big kitchens.

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  • Diwali

    Palm-jaggery sweets for the festival

    Jangiri, Mysore pak and halwa, from $5.39.

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  • Wood pressed

    Sesame oil in 2 L and 5 L

    Cold pressed and unrefined. Stock up for the month.

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Our purity promise

What we leave out matters as much as what we put in.

At Mithra Whole Foods, purity is not simply a word on our packaging. It is a principle behind our products.

We focus on:

  • No Artificial Colors
  • No Unnecessary Preservatives
  • No Unnecessary Additives
  • Carefully Selected Ingredients
  • Minimal Processing
  • Traditional Methods Wherever Possible
  • Preserving Natural Taste, Aroma & Nutritional Qualities

We don't believe food needs unnecessary additions to become better. Sometimes, less is what keeps food closer to its true nature.

Aisle · Health mixes

Porridge and malt mixes for slow mornings

  • Millet and traditional-rice porridge mixes
  • Beetroot and carrot malts
  • Sukku coffee, the dry-ginger classic
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Mithra Multi Grain Health Mix, Paruthi Paal Mix and Palmyra Sprouts Powder with porridge and a malt drink