Similarly your honey shouldn’t be super sweet like some packaged honeys.
Organic food is far healthier, is lighter on the digestive system and also helps reduce acidity and gas related GI issues.
You will feel a perceptible difference in your gut health soon enough.
Similarly, you must switch to cold-pressed organic oils as their nutrients are intact.
The processing method does not use a high amount of heat that causes nutrient loss.
Secondly, there are no chemicals that refined oil has because of its refining process. Also these are high in flavor and fragrance.
Organic atta is usually stone-ground, has all the bran intact – therefore the family of B vitamins – and has enough healthy roughage to keep your digestion humming along.
Always check for any preservatives present in the product; most preservatives are petroleum based – you don’t want to be consuming those for sure!
4 digit PLU (price look up) code on the sticker basically means grown with pesticides; 5 digit codes starting with 8 means GM grown, 5 digit codes starting with 9 means organically grown; in India we basically have the regular 4 digit PLU which indicates that it is grown with pesticides.
(Kavita Devgan is a nutritionist, weight management consultant, and health writer based in Delhi. She is the author of The Don’t Diet Plan: A no-nonsense guide to weight loss, Fix it with Food, Ultimate Grandmother Hacks, and Don ‘t Diet! 50 Habits of Thin People.)
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