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As a result, India now has more users of the application — over 200 million, or one in six Indians

than any other country, a WhatsApp spokeswoman said.

That saturation has often led to misuse

Various groups have deployed WhatsApp to spread false news, incite mob violence and manipulate votes during elections in India and other nations

But among Indians who produce

cook or care about food, the service has been a godsend.

In a country where culinary traditions are often spoken but not written,

WhatsApp has provided an open, democratic forum where Indians can share and codify their knowledge and skills, in new ways, and even profit from them.

One of the problems with documenting Indian food is that the people who prepare it”

mainly homemakers, farmers and young cooks — “tend to be less empowered and less formally educated,

said Vikram Doctor, 51, a journalist in Mumbai. “They just don’t document.

They are not comfortable using a computer or blogging, or people just don’t ask them.”

WhatsApp’s interface is simple and unfussy, with easy-to-navigate tabs for messages and calls.

Aysha Tanya, 29, a founder of the food and culture publication The Goya Journal

said she uses WhatsApp to get recipes from her mother, because it’s the only digital platform that people her mother’s age feel confident using

She sends us these voice notes on WhatsApp messages that allow her to give the really, really tiny details

Ms. Tanya said, “like ‘Brown the onions and listen to this sound.’ It is so much more persona

Noshirwan Mistry, 44, sells and delivers mangoes grown on his farm in Ladghar, south of Mumbai

He is able to get an internet connection about five kilometers outside town

so he uses WhatsApp to send photos of the fruit, as they are growing

to potential buyers all over the country.

“WhatsApp is my best marketing tool

he said, a good way to quickly show the quality of the mangoes

Even when he posts advertisements on other social media channels, customers still contact him on WhatsApp.

Mr. Mistry also uses the application to pass along lore, like how to know if mangoes have been naturally ripened