Ooty varkey is a type of biscuit food made up of wheat flour, rava, semolina, water, ghee, sugar and salt it can be either deep fried or baked. No one knows about how or when it came to existence or how it ended up being referred to as varkey. No one is aware of its nutritional value or calories. Varkey does not contain any animal fat. This is one of the famous production in ooty and more number of tourists prefer to take it back home. It can also be said that more number of people visit Ooty to buy Varkey. From Ooty large amount of Varkey is distributed to all the parts of the state. There are Varkey making factories in Ooty that are maintained up in good manner to produce a good quantity of Ooty Varkey.