New Delhi, May 10 -- During the pandemic five years ago, Meghana Narayan, co-founder of Wholsum Foods, got a call from an emergency room nurse thanking her. The single mother said she could work through the worst of the pandemic knowing that her daughter was being taken care of at home thanks to Slurrp Farm's snack packs. Wholsum Foods, founded in 2016, retails instant health food brand Slurrp Farm for children and Mille for adults.

The call overwhelmed Narayan and validated her idea of starting Slurrp Farm. "That's what we set out to do, solve for as many people as we could," she says.

Narayan and her partner Shauravi Malik's Wholsum Foods champions millet-based and grain-focused ready-to-eat food, using ingredients such as ragi, jowar...