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How fast is our food?

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How fast is our food?

Mar 12: For lunch, Sai Priya (name changed) has pizzas laced with cheese and sauces. Food like this has become her staple diet for the last few months. She is not alone, several people, mainly professionals, chose to grab a bite on the move as it is easier.

Most of us are forced to buy from stores as we live far from our food sources and restaurants become the next best option. These edibles are mostly processed that contain large amounts of hidden sodium, fats, and sugar, which is always bad news for health.

‘Most of us are lost in cross culture. Traditional menu are lost in the fast food culture. Our ancestors ate those that had medicinal properties. Now cornflakes have replaced corns, meats are processed, even honey has artificial preservatives. The point is our tongue accepts the taste but our body does not. In short what we ate from the soil is now all processed,’ says Jayanthi Rajasekaran, an octogenarian from Alwarpet.

For many, especially youngsters, food is a status. Burgers, French fries, pizzas and the lot have become a symbol of modernness. The next thing that is becoming popular among the masses is the ‘heat and eat’ foods. From pulao and cholay to dosa, mattar paneer, parathas, and more, they are becoming popular. They make life easier for those who have little or no time to cook after a particularly tiring day.

‘Yes it is fine to occasionally eat packaged foods as long as they are government certified and sealed properly,’ say dieticians.

‘Most of these packed foods contain Class II preservatives that prevent them from getting spoilt,’ says a city-based dietician R Jayasudha.


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