Battle Against Ayurveda is a Fight for Our Survival
The Case against Patanjali by Indian Medical Association and the tone of Judiciary is alarming. We need to look into its historical and global context to fully grasp its ramification.
Just Five Minutes?
This very popular ad for Maggi Noodles and the popularity of Instant Noodles has been specifically for the kids in India. But are these noodles safe for kids? Or even adults?
Well, it turns out that they aren’t!
Ahmedabad-based Consumer Education and Research Society has done tests on 15 brands of noodles (including Maggi, Top Ramen, Knorr, Ching’s Secret, Sunfeast Yippee!, Foodles, Tasty Treat and Wai Wai X-press) to check out their claims on health quotient of these products. The ingredients that were checked for were Fat, Fibre, Sodium, Calcium, and Iron. The results are pretty depressing:
As you can see these noodles aren’t what they are billed to be and in any case not healthy for long term or regular consumption.What is rather surprising is that this kind of a study had not been done before. Moreover, the fact that Indian Food Administration officials never figured this out doesn’t show that they are doing their work even half well.
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