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Carefulness in selection purchase and preparation of food for the family 93<br />

Moreover, various harmful elements are mixed with foods to increase its external<br />

attraction. Such as –<br />

• To mix white powder with flour to make it white.<br />

• To mix powder of brick sands, other poisonous powder in the spice.<br />

• To mix the powder and wood in tea.<br />

• To use animal fat or other saturated fat with palm oil.<br />

• To use impure fat in butter.<br />

• To use the unused things of cow and goats in making chopped meat.<br />

In this way vegetables, fruits, baby food, even rice, dal, oil, salt are being adulterated.<br />

These foods are not suitable for health . The diseases like mal -digestion, vomiting<br />

diarrhoea, problems in kidney and liver, and many other diseases including cancer can<br />

affect us for takings these foods. The adulterant foods destroy our disease prevention<br />

power and make us weak. According to the physicians, the adulterated foods are equal to<br />

slow poison. Everyday we are taking adulterant food unconsciously. It has a long term<br />

effect in our body. These are creating new diseases which are a threat to our health.<br />

Prevention and responsibility –<br />

• we have to be careful to prevent adulteration.<br />

• we all have to help the government in making and implementation of law<br />

against adulteration.<br />

• public awareness should be increased.<br />

• we have to inform the people of the bad effect of taking adulterated food.<br />

• We have to start a campaign against adulteration and have to take the help of<br />

people of all walks of life and different media.<br />

• Above all, we must be careful in buying.<br />

Task -1 Write about the effect and prevention of adulteration.<br />

Lesson 6 – Cutting and cleaning process of vegetables ,fish and meat<br />

keeping the food value unchanged<br />

We have to go through some process making most of the foods eatable except some<br />

fruits, some vegetables, nuts, date juice etc. This process also affects the taste of food<br />

and its food value. We have to go through some steps to make eatable food from raw<br />

foods. The number of steps depends on the physical condition, chemical structure and<br />

the demand of food.

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