TASTY FOOD

Generally, tasty food is liked by all.

Whenever we eat food we say very much attention to the taste rather than its nutritional value.

The taste buds of our tongue decide the likes and dislikes of a food.

The nutritive value of the food gets the least preference.

However, mothers take care to feed their babies with nutritive food.

That too only the educated mothers are careful in feeding the young ones with good nutritive food.

But millions of uneducated and poor mothers feed their babies with breast milk and whatever available to satisfy the hunger of the babies.

A country where we have the rich, middle class and poor people, has to take initiatives to educate the millions about the importance of nutritive food.

Once the babies grow up they develop the taste for food and the preference for nutritive food is lost.

The taste buds decide the type of food one has to consume.

The taste of a particular food certainly induces us to eat more quantity.

 Sweet taste is liked by almost all whereas bitter taste is preferred only by a few.

It is not the intensity of hunger that is important but the taste!

Therefore everyone becomes a slave to the food which is tasty.

Tasty foods were made by our grand mothers in the olden times.

Even now in some families the grandma who knows the art of cooking, still make very tasty foods.

Similarly, we do get tasty foods – both vegetarian and non-vegetarian – in fashionable restaurants spread out everywhere.

People who have no time to cook, lazy to cook and not to mess up their kitchen are after these restaurants which even door-deliver the kind of food one needs if ordered from a mobile phone.

Moreover ‘eating out’ has become a regular habit among the urban families.

Week-end visits to restaurants normally make people addict to certain tasty food.

Western foods like Italian pizzas, American burgers, French potato fries, and the like are the attraction for our children and the adult too taste them and became addict to such junk foods even in the old age.

Tasty mutton or chicken or egg or vegetable biriyani dishes are delicacy for many of us.

They are nicely prepared by certain restaurants.

Fried items like mutton, chicken and fish fries are also tasty foods.

Of course, these tasty foods are expensive depending on the restaurant in which you dine.

Those who want to eat tasty food do not bother the cost of the food.

Conveniently credit/debit cards are being used nowadays so that cash is invisible to both the waiter and the customer.

Once we are used to tasty food, it is very difficult to get out of it.

Millions of books on food nutrition are written and published all over the world in all available forms and languages for all of us to read and turn to nutritious food.

But few people think of the contents of those books and follow.

Generally food is taken for granted.

It is a known fact that non-nutritious foods are the causes for most of our illness.

‘Eat less and be alert’ – one of my teachers used to teach us.

I understood the meaning of it only very late in my life!

He was correct; if we eat less than what we require, we are more active and we can digest what we ate very easily.

Moreover, adding fruits and vegetables, fiber and grains in our food helps us to get more nutrition.

They contain minerals and vitamins and also required calories for providing us energy.

‘Minor changes in your eating habits can lead to major changes in your health’ is the advice given by food specialists on food nutrition.

What we eat not only affects our day-to-day health but also helps to determine the quality of our life and even how long we will live!

Therefore, nutritious food in optimum quantity at appropriate time is better than the junk or tasty foods at every time.

Nutritious food can be tasty or we have to make them tasty.

Food safety is essential for our health.

Food organically produced is considered to be the safe nowadays.

Foods vary with countries and culture.

When we say food, most of them are processed and preservatives added.

Of course, fresh fruits and vegetables are tastier than the preserved ones.

Hence, in order to keep better health we need to pay great attention to our food.

Learning something about food nutrition is essential for all of us who are interested in a healthy life.

I think, we all have to control our taste buds to a considerable extent.

Eating sweet is tasty, but the consequences are nasty.

So les us think over the tasty food and decide what we need to do.

13 December 2010