Organic Foods – The acute need of current & future generations.
The old proverb is that, Basic human needs of man have been a food, clothes & shelter. Now time is for amendment in proverb, instead of only food, Organic Foods – this specific word should be replaced.
Food quality is degraded a lot, due to usage of artificial fertilizers, flavor, color, preservatives etc. from the step of growing to preservation of food. Ignorance on such incidents may lead to spoil our health.
There must be a strict government rule or need banned for using chemicals as well as artificial components.
Which are the inorganic foods that we consume daily?
Below are some key points, at least where we must focus and try to avoid as much as we can.
1. Adulterated Milk
Today most of the population lives in city. People shift to city on higher proportions for their job or business purposes, and then have to adjust with facilities available at that place.
In village life, there are lots of people who do milking for there self employment. Due to sufficient people do animal husbandry, people livings in villages gets direct home delivery of pure milk. Only such milkman add waters in milk to increase the quantity, hence there is no any such side effects on health.
Most probably milkman give it to milk dairy, once collecting of sufficient amounts of milk, it is then packed in small pouches to deliver at places where it is not produced.
Some people for their self benefit, do wrong practice and sale the adulterated Milk. This people use urea, washing powder, glucose, refined oil, milk powder, water, hydrogen peroxide etc., this is called as synthetic milk. Such artificial or adulterated Milk is slow poison and may lead to cancer.
2. Jaggery
Jaggery is also used in large proportion for consumptions. This product is also easily adulterated.
Mostly good hygienic jaggery has dark brown color & adulterated one comes in yellowish or with light yellow colors. Such jaggery consumption is harmful for our body.
To make such adulterated some other products or chemicals are added, like sugar, artificial colors, sodium hydro sulphate, superphosphate, calcium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, ortho-phosphoric acid, calcium hydroxide, sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate, etc.
The reason behind such chemicals usage is that, to remove the impurities very easily s well as to get proper color of final product.
Suggestions : Jaggery has many health benefits, hence eat only organic jaggery. To avoid and save yourself from bad effects of such chemicals on your health.
3. Banana
Banana is favorite & common fruit, which is consumed on large proportion. It is easily available in the market for entire year.
This is very healthy food for our body, but due to wrong practice of its fast ripening process make them harmful.
Due to heavy demand, farmers pluck the banana bunch early from its plant. Then it is sent to its warehouse for storage and ripening process. Here chemicals are used for faster ripening.
Chemicals used for such fast ripening process includes ethephon, calcium carbide, acetylene, ethylene gas, ethylene glycol and alkyl alcohols etc., long time habits of eating these chemically ripen banana can cause various diseases.
4. Watermelon
Watermelon is favorite among all the people due to its delicious taste.
This fruit is easily available in the market and specially in large quantities at the time of summer season.
Watermelon provides us various health benefits but make sure it should be ripen naturally. Just like banana, watermelon are also the fruit which is ripen artificial way that can harm our health.
Some of the vendors inject red dye in this fruit, that will give red color and sweetness to watermelon. Such chemicals are very dangerous for our health.
Oxytocin is also used to inject to make the watermelons growth faster.
Chemicals used for watermelon contains lead chromate, nitrate, methanol, carbide, Sudan red, that will make watermelon unhygienic for consumption.
Such watermelon will appear extra or dark red in color as well as taste will be more sweet.
It will be a advise to check while buying watermelon to avoid bad effects on health.
5. Foods grown with fertilizers
Earlier foods or vegetables were grown naturally. That time only natural fertilizers were used for each type of plants, like Compost, dungs of cow, ox & buffalos etc.,
These will help crops to grow in healthy methods. We will not have any type of side effects on our body. Now it is hard to get availability of organic fertilizers, instead chemical fertilizers are easily available in cheaper rate.
Crops ripen with chemicals fertilizers have no good & healthy nutrition as compared to organic one.
6. Packed foods
Today packed foods are the major foods source of many people. Due to busy schedules, quick snacks or being a fond of taste, such packed foods are consumed in large proportion.
Packed foods are processed and stored. Mostly preservatives, gases are used for keeping the food editable for long time.
We should aware that such packed foods may harm our health and liable for digestion related problems.
Frequently asked question.
1. What is organic foods?
Answer : Organic food is anything which is grown or made naturally & without using any artificial chemicals.
This is pure food that contains natural flavors, colors, no any additional artificial additives, no use of chemicals fertilizers and pesticides, no ripening with using of chemicals etc.
The food that is produced in farm and specifically not using of any chemicals, antibiotics, artificial fertilizers etc. No use of preservatives, colours, additives and sweeteners.
2. Is organic foods good for consumptions?
Answer: Yes, organic food is absolutely better for consumptions as it do not have side effects as compared to inorganic food that have harmful effects.
3. Who can do organic farming?
Answer : Anyone can do this organic farming. There is no necessary to do it on large proportion only, we can also do it for smaller proportion for fulfil family requirements and have healthy life.
Which family have small baby, then the must be alert for theirs child food.