By Garima Johar
September 22, 2025
For Navtratri, the 9-day-long festival, devotees fast and abstain from certain foods. While the specific rules may vary across different cultures, chocolate is generally avoided during Navratri. Here’s why.
Chocolate is a processed food and you can never guess the quality of ingredients and is thus avoided.
Many people refrain from eating sugar or products like chocolates made with sugar while fasting.
Being a packaged food, chocolates contain preservatives and additives which should be avoided.
As per traditions, certain foods with specific energies are considered to be impure to consume during Navratri.
A few reasons might state, it’s ultimately up to your preference to eat chocolate.