How traditional peda differs from other Indian sweets

Indian sweet shops sell many milk and gram sweets side by side. The names are not interchangeable.

Peda

Peda is usually a milk sweet, pressed or shaped into a round or slightly flattened piece. Across northern India it is commonly associated with thickened milk and sugar, often with cardamom. Families and shops do not all use the same method.

Barfi and ladoo

Barfi is often set in a tray and cut into squares or diamonds. Ladoo is rolled into a ball and may be made from gram flour, motichoor, or other bases, not only from milk solids. A box of mixed mithai can hold all three. That does not make them one product.

What Sohan Peda will say about its own packs

A Times of India interview published on 2 October 2026 quoted Sohanlal Gupta on Malwan peda: milk simmered for hours, sugar added during that cooking, and green cardamom. The report also described the pieces as larger than many other pedas. This site treats that as a published interview. It is not printed on every pack as a promise that the method never changes.

Ingredient lines, allergens, storage, and shelf life appear on a product page only after they are confirmed in the catalogue. Until then, the page says the detail has not been published.

Read more on the traditional peda page.