Food -- watch what you are eating

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Food... the basic necessity of life. We toil day and night for what? For that two morsel of wholesome nutritive food. And if at the end of the day we are not sure of what we eat, than what are we toiling for? We may be eating a dangerous dye, sawdust, soap stone, industrial starch, Aluminum foil and believe it, even horse-dung! Inviting disease rather than good health. And what are the law enforcing authorities doing? Looking the other way, ignoring, sitting on files and being bought and bribed.

 

 

Are you getting attracted by the delectable and the luscious color of the sweetmeats or " Mithai " ? Decorated with an equally attractive silver foil or so you believe! "

Besan ladoos " , the color so attractive, that you almost want to devour it. Is it the whiteness of the puffed rice that you loved rather than the puffed rice itself? Or the taste of that spicy deep yellow colored Indian snack called "

Pakoda " ? And you wonder why whenever you make it at home, you never get that same yellow color? When you move about in the market and see the attractively decorated sweets and other edible items your appetite becomes almost insatiable. And that's what it is meant to do to you. Attract you to buy and eat. But wait! In the process you may be eating... Metanil yellow a non-permitted coal tar dye commonly known as '

Kishori Rang', Rhodamin-B, Lead Chromate or perhaps Ultra Marine Blue. These are all non-permissible and banned colors and they cause serious health hazards and may also cause cancer in the long run. They are carcinogenic. Now what exactly is food adulteration? Well, the deliberate contamination of food materials with low quality, cheap, non-edible or toxic substances is called food adulteration. While the substance that degrades or lowers the quality of food is an adulterant.