5 Beloved Indian Sweets That Got GI Tags in 2025 & the Stories Behind Their Flavours

Some sweets arrive with a season. Others arrive with memory, folded into festivals, family rituals, and mishti (traditional Bengali sweets) shopfronts you return to year after year. In 2025, five such Indian sweets received a Geographical Indication (GI) tag, formally recognising flavours people have trusted long before they were officially documented. From winter-only sandesh shaped by nolen gur (date palm jaggery) to a humble jaggery powder rooted in Tamil Nadu’s farming traditions, these GI-tagged sweets tell stories of place, patience, and people.  Four of them come from West Bengal alo...