Festival of colours-Holi is over. But as a parent you must be
cautious and conscious with colours, particularly when it comes to food.
Perhaps you have read many articles on healthy and tasty foods. But
leading play schools like Genius Kids make parents aware of what is
behind the tasty and colourful foods. Arvind Ram (name changed), a fruit
seller in Esplanade in Kolkata was spraying something on an apple and
rubbing it with a cloth to keep fruits fresh. He admitted that he
sprayed lead acetate, a toxic chemical before rubbing it to make it
fresh.
According to Dr. Krishnajyoti Goswami, a biochemist and
Director, National Referral Centre for Lead Poisoning in India, cut
fruit sellers often use rhodomine B for watermelons causing skin
irritation because watermelons become redder being exposed to the sun.
They inject saccharine and metanil yellow, a carcinogenic substance in
pineapple to make it more yellow appealing to customers and also
sweeter, said Dr. Goswami. Maybe, your child cannot understand such
toxic chemicals but reputed day care like Genius Kids Day care offers such information in the parents meet so that you can disseminate information to your child at home.
Play
schools giant Genius Kids keep on updating you about ill effect of fast
food. Mouth-watering foods ranging from biryani to chow to processed
foods and other fast foods sold on the street, in restaurants and
markets are not only fresh but also tasty because of toxic impurities.
Adulterated foods do not affect one's health immediately but affect it
in the long run as impurities used as taste maker and preservative are
poisonous, toxic and some are carcinogenic. Metanil yellow, a
carcinogenic chemical is used as a substitute of saffron which is
expensive (Rs. 3, 50, 000 per kg) to make cheap rated biryani. 1gm of
metanil yellow was found in 150 gm rice in biryani while more than 2
microgram lead is harmful to the human body, said Dr. Goswami. However,
leading play schools like Genius Kids believe in the value addition.
That is why such value added information is being shared with parents
because toxic foods are 8-10 times more vulnerable to children.
Moreover,
warm fried food often contaminated with lead as fried food is carried
in a container made of newspaper which carries printed substance lead
oxide. According to food technology expert Utpal Raychaudhuri, noodles
are generally boiled and dried out keeping them on newspaper. Thus chow
gets also contaminated with lead oxide.
Adulterators do not spare
milk. They use formalin in milk to absorb water content and make it
thick. Casein is being processed using muriatic acid, which is used for
cleaning of toilets, instead of using lactic acid and thus sweets do
last more than the usual time and at the same time, insects and bacteria
do not come. Fried food sellers often recycle oil to fry, which causes
heart attack as recycled oil increases low density lipoprotein
cholesterol (Bad cholesterol) which saturates in the artery wall, added
Goswami.
But it does not mean that you and your child will not try
these lip smacking foods once. You should but not frequently. Teachers
at the top play schools like Genius Kids teach children about ill-effect
of adulterated food in a lucid language. But as a parent you should put
health before taste.
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