The Monsoon’s Most Expensive Delicacy: Unveiling the Secrets of Rugda, the Lightning-Born Vegetable

Doctors also believe that consuming Rugda improves the human immune system. This vegetable contains vitamin B, vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and copper. It has very few calories. Rugda is actually considered a mushroom species, but it does not grow above the ground like mushrooms. Instead, it is produced underground, emerging from the earth due to heavy rain and lightning around the Sal tree during the two months of the rainy season: June and July.