| 21. | Many Indians have long chewed paan, a betel leaf wrapped around a mixture of lime paste, spices and often tobacco.
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| 22. | The main crops grown in the village are rice, wheat, jute, sugarcane, onions, garlic, betel leaf, vegetables and sweet potatoes.
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| 23. | In the courts of Medieval Rulers, the betel leaf or paan was offered as part of hospitality, friendship and love.
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| 24. | Betel leaf has a fresh, peppery taste, but it can also be bitter to varying degrees depending on the variety.
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| 25. | This is often represented by a bit of betel leaf, smeared with lime, put in a piece of palm leaf.
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| 26. | Then came the paan, a concoction of a betel leaf wrapped around a toothpastelike mixture of betelnut and whole spices.
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| 27. | Paan, a betel leaf preparation eaten as a mouth fresher post meals in India is also sold at Mumbai's roadside stalls.
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| 28. | Salt fields and betel leaf plantations were damaged on the southern Banshkhali Island close to Cox's Bazaar, said The Independent newspaper.
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| 29. | It is not known how or when the areca nut and the betel leaf were first combined into one psychoactive drug.
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| 30. | The betel leaf is packed into a little'package'with edible calcium paste layered on top and a pinch of coarsely powdered betel nuts.
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