Sunday, July 4, 2010

Insight in to Food Preservatives.

Food preservatives are added to increases the life of a product, these preservatives are added to food products to prevent decomposition due to adverse chemical change or microbial action

Natural Preservatives:
Salting, Drying , Freezing, Pickling are healthy way of preserving food. Sugar, Salt, Vinegar, Turmeric are natural preservatives and these doesn't have harmful effects on human body.

Artificial Preservatives: These chemical preservatives are most effective in increasing product life. These chemical substance stops growth of bacteria, yeast and fungus in food and also avoid oxidation of food.

* Benzoates (such as sodium benzoate, benzoic acid)
* Nitrites (such as sodium nitrite)
* Sulphites (such as sulphur dioxide)
* Sorbates (such as sodium sorbate, potassium sorbate

Benzoates are added in Soft drinks, fruit juices, meat products. This preservative is banned in Russia, this causes skin rashes, allergies asthama and brain damage.
Butylates and Butylated hydroxyanisole are mainly added in pork and pork sausages, potato chips, instant teas, cake mixes. This causes high blood pressure and cholesterol level. This can affect the kidney and liver function.
Harmful effects to health from these chemical substance are endless.

Many products we consume in day to day life contains these chemical preservatives and cumulatively adds up. Artificial preservatives are used in many products like bread, potato chips, soft drinks, ketch ups, Salad dressings and many more.
How are we going to control or limit the intake of these chemical substances?

Always prefer fresh vegetables over frozen vegetables. Fresh fruits and fruits juices over canned and flavored juices. Ice creams, Soya milk, fruit juices can be made alternatives to soft drinks.

Remember a healthy body leads to a healthy mind.
Our focus is to produce fresh and healthy products and we say "NO" to ARTIFICIAL PRESERVATIVES and "YES" to HEALTHY BODY".

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  2. Thanks for helping nosreves foods in bringing awareness among people for fresh and chemical free foods.

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  3. Thanks for reminding us about the food habits...

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