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Start your day with healthy breakfast

  What’s your breakfast? What! You don’t eat breakfast? Or the other cases might be that you eat your breakfast but it’s still not nutritious. Either you consume breakfast or you don’t, this blog is a must for you. Regardless of the specific dietary plan, a wide variety of nutritionists agree on one thing: the importance of breakfast. It has to be consumed daily in the right manner and at the right time. In this blog we will discuss all the aspects related to breakfast and how can you extract most out of your breakfast. Importance of Breakfast ‘Break the fast’ with breakfast. During sleep, your glucose gets diminished and after you wake up you need the energy to boost. You need metabolism to jump-start whose calories need to burn throughout the day. Plus, you’ll be likely to consume less fat throughout the day. Breakfast eaters have better memory, great focus and are less likely to become overweight. The American Heart Association supports the importance of br...

Whole Grains and their benefits

One of the most trending topic these days is how rich your diet is in whole grains. The impact is such that even packaged foods are advertising their richness in whole grains with utmost pride. Weel whole grains have been a part of the human diet for tens of thousands of years In fact, eating whole grains is associated with various benefits, including a lower risk of diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure. While a high intake of refined grains is linked to health problems like obesity and inflammation, whole grains are a different story. What are whole grains? These are the seeds of grass-like plants called cereals such as corn, rice, and wheat. Even seeds of some non-grass plants, called pseudo cereals, are also considered whole grains, such as buckwheat, quinoa, and amaranth. Whole-grain kernels have three parts: Bran.  This is the hard, outer shell which has fibre, minerals, and antioxidants. Endosperm.  This is the middle layer of the grain, mostly ...

Purity and Indi-Mart

Supermarkets, online grocery stores and local Kirana walas; food is easily accessible and the distance is reduced to just one click. And we the loving audience completely rely on them. Brightly lit stores, an extravagant display of products and magnanimous offers; hardly do we get time to analyse the quality of the brand and the product. Today there are nearly 12.8 million retail grocery outlet brands as per 2020 reports. Out of these, some are low scale and some are big giants. You can definitely understand that the consumer is confused and unaware of the food he is consuming. Food Safety Risks There are tonnes of food safety risks making its way from the farm, to the distributor, to retailer – and finally, into consumer homes, such as: ·          fungicides, pesticides, herbicides, genetically modified crops, and contamination from pests; ·          handling practices at every the point alo...

Food packaging for a better future

When Sustainable Development is talk of the town, do you think that we would be using the same plastic we are using today ten years from now? If the answer to this question is No, then how will food packaging look like in the future? Well answer to this question can be explained after discussing three W’s: 1.        Why 2.        What 3.        When Let’s dive deep into the topic to understand these three W’s better. Why do we need to change Current Food Packaging Processes? Right from chocolate bar wrappers to the milk pouches everything is made of Plastic. Owing to its reliability and durability, plastic can be seen used by almost everyone and for everything. Though you may find some metal and wooden boxes being used as large containers yet it’s primarily plastic. Plastic took over the packaging industry effectively in the '80s and '90s. Today, with more varieties of plastics av...

5 Health Benefits of Ajwain

Ajwain or Carom seeds in English is a spice found in every Indian household and widely used in Indian cuisines. It is an herbal plant that belongs to the Apiaceae family, which also includes coriander, fennel, and caraway, etc. It has a unique pungent & bitter taste, and its color varies from slightly olive green to brown. It is often dry roasted or roasted with ghee to enhance the aroma and flavor before adding it to the cuisines. This wonder spice not only enhances the taste of the dishes but also has many health benefits. It is commonly used as a home remedy for numerous health problems. Let us see the five health benefits of the Ajwain: Improves Digestion:  Your mother would have probably given you Ajwain water whenever you had stomach pain or suffered from indigestion. It is the most common home remedy to treat indigestion, stomach aches or cramps, or other gastric problems. Ajwain improves gut health through active enzymes that release gas...