Why all Vegetarians & Vegans should know & beware about Maggi and other E foods??

The main reason behind this article remains for the awareness regarding maggi. I am also a foodie and love eating maggi whenever i am tired but decided to share this with all Maggi lovers.

Many of us can't live without " Maggi " especially when one is away from home, in a foreign land. Here is a piece of information to share so that we can remove the potential health hazard of consuming Maggi. Maybe you should print this e-mail to keep as a reminder, pin it up in the kitchen or dining room as reminder or in your purse if you are always traveling.

The reason why all vegetarians should know about maggi are health related issues, its the non veg product, and other products which seems to be a veg product but they not & why jain and vaishnav religion people can't eat maggi. All the reason are listed below. I hope you aware people about this are reading it.

1. Health related issues

Beware Maggi Lovers : Cooking Maggi Noodles in wrong way is very dangerous for health.

There is a certain way to cook maggi. You may be thinking whats new in this but the cooking process which is shown behind the packet maybe right but it is surely harmful to your body because maggi noodles are coated with Wax which harms us and takes 3 to 4 days to excrete the wax which is harmful. The ingredient called MSG can make you fat and fat people know how much difficult it is to loose their weight. Maggi should not be given to young children as they are also harmful to them.

Normally, how we cook the instant noodles is to put the noodles into a pot with water, throw in the powder and let it cook for around 3 minutes and then it's ready to eat. This is the WRONG way and dangerous method of cooking the instant noodles like Maggi. By doing this, when we actually boil the ingredients in the powder,normally with MSG, it will change the molecular structure of the MSG, causing it to be toxic. The other thing that you may or may not realize is that, the noodles are coated with wax and it will take around 4 to 5 days for the body to excrete the wax after you have eaten the noodles.

CORRECT METHOD OF COOKING MAGGI:

The correct way to cook instant noodles without harming our bodies and health is

1. Boil the noodles in a pot of water.
2. Once the noodles are cooked, take out the noodles, and throw away the water which contains wax.
3. Boil another pot of water, add the cooked noodles into the hot boiling water and then turn off the stove.
4. Only at this stage when the stove is off, and while the water is very hot, add the flavoring powder into the water, to make noodle soup.
5. However, if you need dry noodles, remove the noodles and add the flavoring powder and toss it to get dry noodles.

2. Maggi is non vegetarian

Maggi contains MSG (Monosodium glutamate) used as a flavor enhancer, which is made? using Bactosoytone, itself made from soy protein using a catalyst enzyme porcine (taken from intestine of Pig). Chemically, catalyst never goes in the molecular structure of Bactosoytone, hence it's Vegetarian for Nestle. MSG as such is harmful to health. Maggi also launched no-MSG series known as Vegetable Atta-Maggie, but that's just a makeover.

Atta Maggie contains? DSG (DiSodium Glutamate), which does contain Bactosoytone. Not written in ingredients as such, hidden under alias Flavor-627. Maggi also contains flavour enhancers E 631 and E 635. Also a huge number of popular packed foods such as Maggi noodles, biscuits etc and even other products such as toothpaste, soaps etc contain animal fat in them, that too, mostly PIG FAT.

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A hindi newspaper article showing, " Biscuits and chocolates contains non veg".

Non veg hidden in E foods.

"Disodium glutamate is produced from dried fish or dried seaweed and is often added to instant noodles, potato chips and other snacks, savouryrice, tinned vegetables, cured meats, and packaged soup".

Monosodium glutamate (MSG - E621) is a flavor enhancer commonly added to Chinese food, canned vegetables, soups and processed meats.

The following table indicates additives which are always derived from animals.

Definitely of animal origin

E Number	Additive Name
120	Cochineal, Carminic acid, Carmines Natural Red 4 - colouring A colouring that makes many foods red. Found in alcoholic drinks, fruit pie fillings, jams, many sweets and even cheeses. Cochineal is made from the female insect found on cacti called Dactylopius Coccus. She is boiled alive or left to "cook" alive through sun exposure. Cochineal is the result of crushing scales of the insect into a red powder.
441	Gelatine - Emulsifier / Gelling Agent You may not find this E number 441 on food ingredients listings anymore because instead of an additive, Gelatine has now been classed as food (made of animal skin and hoofs) in it's own right. Remember, all types of gelatine are animal based and can be found in dairy products like yoghurts, plus many kinds of confectionery, jellies and other sweets.
542	Bone phosphate - Anti-caking agent
631	Disodium inosinate - Flavour enhancer Almost always made from animals and fish
635	Disodium 5'-ribonucleotides - Flavour enhancer Often made from animals
901	Beeswax - white and yellow - Glazing Agent Not suitable for Vegans.
966	Lactitol - Sweetener Derived from Lactose, commercially prepared using whey, so unsuitable for vegans.

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The video belows shows the dangers of Monosodium glutamate (MSG)

The Dangers of MSG - Part 1 'The Hidden Danger in Your Food' (Flavor Enhancers E621 side effects)

FOOD ADDITIVE CODE BREAKER & SIDE EFFECTS - FLAVOR ENHANCERS, MSG

Number	Name	Comments
E620	L-Glutamic acid	might cause similar problems as MSG(621), young children should avoid it
E621	Monosodium glutamate (MSG)	can be an allergen, not permitted in foods for infants and young children
E622	Monopotassium glutamate	can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea , abdominal cramps. Typical products are low sodium salt substitutes
E627	Disodiumguanylate	not permitted in foods for infants and young children
E631	Disodium inosinate	not permitted in foods for infants and young children
E635	Sodium 5'ribonucleotide	not permitted in Australia

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Why used in maggi ??

Pigs skin juice is used for bringing taste to maggi ans other flavour enhancers are listed in the above tables which play an important role in bringing the taste to the Maggi.

Simple experiment to try at home if you are non vegetarian:-

Boil chicken maggi soup powder and vegetarian maggi noodles masala powder

After boiling, taste both of them. They will taste the same.

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3. Why Jain and Vaishnav people can't eat Maggi??

People who follow jain and vaishnav religion can't eat Maggi because it contains Onion and Garlic powder in it.

4. Other Foods which contains animals

Albumen: This is the white of egg and is commonly used on bread and confectionary.

Ajinomoto: Made from fish. Used as a sauce or in Chinese food.

Cheese: Most foreign cheeses are made by using stomach acids obtained from the slitting the stomachs of calves while alive.

Chewing gum: Usually made of vegetable gum but may contain glycerine, gelatine, stearic acid and emulsifiers of animal origin. Check on the label.

Chips: Always fried in animal fat abroad at all fast food eateries. Packaged Indian crisps must specify that they are cooked in vegetable oils or assume that they are not.

Chocolates: The most commonly used animal ingredients in chocolates are egg white, egg lecithin, shellac and gelatine. Nestle’s Kitkat is made of calf rennet. Turkish Delight, fruit rolls, toffees, marshmallows, jujubes, peppermints usually contain gelatine. Polo Mints contain beef. So do most Western sweets that come in via the Middle East. Smarties contain cochineal.

Colas: May use ester gum as emulsifiers. Ester gum’s main ingredient is glycerol. Coca Cola admits to using glycerine.

Ice-cream: Unless specifically listed as vegetarian, the ice cream contains eggs and gelatine obtained by boiling cattle udders, noses and anuses. Amul and Baskin Robbins are vegetarian.

Jam: Jammay contain gelatine

Jelly: Jelly is always made of gelatine. In fact the word jelly is a short form of gelatine. A few companies make it from vegetable gum and mark it as vegetarian jelly. Look for the label.

Varakh: This is made by beating silver between fresh hot cow/buffalo intestines. Each piece of varakh contains specks of intestine.

Riboflavin: This is used as a orange-yellow coloring agent. It is obtained from egg yolk or liver. It can also come from vegetables but that is expensive. Check with the manufacturer.

Worcester Sauce: It contains small fish called anchovies.

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Also see food you didn't know contained meat.

Hope you share this article and make people aware about it, So that next time when they go to market to buy foods they know what they are taking home to consume.

Lose weight by Drinking Green Juices.

Green Juices

Take some Green fruits and vegetables and make some fresh fruit or green vegetable juice and drink everytime just before 20 minutes of each meal. It will ease your hunger, and provide you with necessary vitamins and minerals at the same time.

Using dark greens vegetables to make juices such as spinach, cabbage, broccoli, carrots, celery, asparagus, and cucumber, will help you create good combinations to increase your vitamin intake further. They are great for any weight loss regimen and to detoxify (internal cleansing).

Tips to remember :-

Avoid bottled fruit juices (ex: Tropicana, Minute Maid, etc.); they are high in sugar content.

Try acai berry juice. It is very good for weight loss.

Keep away from coriander and basil, which are herbs that can stimulate your appetite.

Don't drink more than 2 oz. of undiluted green vegetable juice at a time or you will have unpleasant digestive symptoms.
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I hope you make this a regular part of life and make it a daily routine and drink these juices to stay fit and healthy alongwith loosing your weight.

Success Story of Jaclyn Beach who looses her weight by 106 pounds just with juicing says Fitlife.

Green juice recipes for weight loss:-

All the juices contains approximately 1 quart (32oz) of juice, give or take based on produce.


1.Pineapple, Cucumber, Mint Juice

• 1/2 ripe pineapple
• 2 cucumbers
• 1 bunch of mint

Run all ingredients through juicer and enjoy!


2. The Greenbay

• 5 oranges (remember to peel oranges before juicing, otherwise juice will be bitter)
• juice of 1/2 bunch parsley

Run oranges through juicer and set aside. Separately juice parsley. Slowly pour parsley juice over OJ forming two layers.

Note: you will probably want to mix this juice before drinking, unless you enjoy the taste of straight parsley juice!!


3. Sweet Ruby

• small bunch grapes
• 1 cucumber
• 1 apple
• 1 lemon
• 1 bunch rainbow chard
• 1/2 bunch parsley
• 4 stalks celery
• 1 medium size beet
• 1/2 habanero or jalapeno pepper (optional)

Run all ingredients through juicer and enjoy!

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Give your valuable comments below!!

How super fruits helps us to stay young??

Super fruits. hmm!!

what are they? why do we call them so?

look at the list below and you will find out.

 

1. Kiwi
Tiny but Mighty! It is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its Vitamin C content is twice that of as orange.

2. Apple
An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Altough an apple has a low Vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhance the activity of Vitamin C thereby helping to lower the ricks of colon cancer, heart attack and stroke.

3. Orange
THe sweetest medicine. Taking 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent and dissolve kidney stones, as well as lessen the risk of colon cancer.

4. Strawberry
A protective fruit, strawberry has the highest total antioxidants power among major fruits and they protect the body from cancer.

5. Watermelon
The coolest thirst Quencher. 92 % of it is water, but it boosts our immune system, and fights cancer. It also contains Vitamin C and potassium.

6. Guvava & Papaya
Top awards for Vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high Vitamin C content. Guvava is also rich in fiber which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotetne, which is good for our eyes.

These all super fruits helps us to keep young and eating them regularly keeps us healthy.

Some other Tips on how to stay young!!

• Laugh and have fun. Don't be gloomy.
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• Lets bygones be bygones.
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• Early to bed, earlt to rise, is healthy and wise.
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• Stay lean. Being just 30% overweight is bad.
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• Keep working, doing something you like.
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• Be the boss of your own life.
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• Too much medicine ruins your body.
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• Exercise and eat less fatty foods.
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• Do not worry about health and death, just get on with your life and enjoy it!!!
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5 Best Advantages of drinking water in the morning

 

5 - Drinking water on an empty stomach purifies the colon making it easier to absorb nutrients.

 

4 - It increases the production of the new blood and muscles cells.

 

3 - It also helps with weight loss. Drinking atleast 16 ounces of chilled water can boost your metabolism by 24 % in the morning.

 

2- It glows our skin. Water also helps to purge toxins from the blood which helps to keep ouy skin glowing and clear. This prevents dark spots and pimples.

 

1 - It balances our lymph system. These glands help you perform your daily functions, balance your body fluids, and fights against infections.

 

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8 Foods you didn't know contained Meat

1. Barbecue Baked Lays

 

America's favourite chip contains 'natural flavours' that include chicken.

 

2. Parmesan Cheese

 

Parmesan cheese requires rennet in the curdling process. the only problem? rennet is made of the stomach of newborn calves.

The original Parmesan cheese is one of the most expensive cheeses in the world.

 

3. Worcestershire Sauce

 

This zesty sauce contains anchovies.

 

4. Velveeta

 

We are back on the rennet train. Kraft has confirmed that many of their products contains animal enzymes (calf stomachs).

 

5. Minute Maid Juices

 

Minute Maid's fortified juice line contains Vitamin D. Awesome, Right? Except that the vitamin D is derived from lanolin which is an oil secreted by sheep.

 

6. Altoids

 

These mints contain gelatin made from the collagen inside animals skin and bones.

 

7. Guinness

 

Isinglass, a product using in the clarification process for many ales (including Guinness) is made of fish swim bladders. Though Guinness says that very little isinglass remains in the finished product, it still could have some traces.

 

8. Smarties

 

The Purple smarties are dyed using carmine, which is taken from cochineals (beetle like insects). Also look out for Red 4 - that's carmine, too.

 

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Best Foods for Perfect Skin

 

Eat your way to the better complexion with these skin super foods

 

1. Almonds

 

Hey guess what?

Almonds are seeds not nuts and they are stuffed with vitamin E. They acts like an antioxidant that helps protect skin cells from UV lights.

 

2. Carrots

 

Think of them as orange wonder wands, contains Vitamin A. They are good for clearing up breakouts. They helps to prevent the over production of cells in skin outer layer.

 

3. Dark Chocolates

 

Its a medicine so of course you need it. It contains antioxidants which reduces roughness in the skin and protect against sun damage.

 

4. Green Tea

 

When its hot, the bionic brew releases catechims, a type of antioxidants with proven anti cancer properties. It also helps to prevent from skin cancer.

 

5. Tomatoes

 

Sure they're smelled on salads, but cook them down and these plump little beauties can save your skin. Why? Lycopene, Photochemical makes it red, helps eliminate skin-aging free radicals caused by UV rays.

 

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Side effects of Soda

Here are some Side effects from soda, lets see how soda harms our body. This is also a way to aware people about it. So share these facts with your friends and family. Lets see...

1. Phosphoric Acid - Weakens bones and rots teeth.

2. Excessive artificial sweeteners makes you crave more.

3. Carmel Color - made from the chemical caramel, is purley cosmetic, it doesn't add flavor yet is tainted with carcinogens.

4. Formaldehyde - Carcingen, it is not added in soda but when you digest aspartame, it will break down into 2 amino acids and methanol = formic acid + formaldehyde (diet sodas).

5. High fructose corn syrup is a concentrated from sugar, fructose derived from corn. It increases body fat, cholesterol and triglycerides and it also makes you hungry.

6. Potassium Benzoate = preservative that can be broken down to benzene in your body. Keep your soda in the sun and benzene = Carcinogen.

7. Food dyes = impaired brain function, hyperactive behaviour, difficulty focussing, lack of impulse control.

8. Caramel Cancer-Causers - In 2011, the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the artificial caramel coloring used to make Coke, Pepsi, and other colas brown. The reason: Two contaminants in the coloring, 2-methylimidazole and 4-methylimidazole, have been found to cause cancer in animals, a threat the group says is unnecessary, considering that the coloring is purely cosmetic. According to California’s strict Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to cause cancer, just 16 micrograms per person per day of 4-methylimidazole is enough to pose a cancer threat, and most popular brown colas, both diet and regular, contain 200 micrograms per 20-ounce bottle.

9. Accelerated Aging - Diet or regular, all colas contain phosphates, or phosphoric acid, a weak acid that gives colas their tangy flavor and improves their shelf life. Although it exists in many whole foods, such as meat, dairy, and nuts, too much phosphoric acid can lead to heart and kidney problems, muscle loss, and osteoporosis, and one study suggests it could trigger accelerated aging. The study, published in a 2010 issue of the FASEB Journal, found that the excessive phosphate levels found in sodas caused lab rats to die a full five weeks earlier than the rats whose diets had more normal phosphate levels–a disturbing trend considering that soda manufacturers have been increasing the levels of phosphoric acid in their products over the past few decades.

 

10. Mountain Dew Mind - Dentists have a name for the condition they see in kids who drink too much Mountain Dew. They wind up with a "Mountain Dew Mouth," full of cavities caused by the drink's excessive sugar levels. "Mountain Dew Mind" may be the next medical condition that gets named after the stuff. An ingredient called brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, added to prevent the flavoring from separating from the drink, is an industrial chemical used as a flame retardant in plastics. Also found in other citrus-based soft drinks and sports drinks, the chemical has been known to cause memory loss and nerve disorders when consumed in large quantities. Researchers also suspect that, like brominated flame retardants used in furniture foam, the chemical builds up in body fat, possibly causing behavioral problems, infertility, and lesions on heart muscles over time.

 

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After 125 years, secret Coke formula is out.

 

 

Since it was first made in 1886, the Coca-Cola formula is one of the most fiercely guarded trade secrets of the corporate world. Many claimed to have found it, but the mystery of Merchandise 7X, the name given to the combination of secret ingredients which gives the soft drinks its distinctive taste, has endured.

Now an american public radio show claims to have found the recipe kept in an Atlanta steel vault and which, it is said, only two employees at a time know how to mix. The two never fly together.

'This American Life', broadcast on more than 500 stations, said it found the recipe in a 40-year-old newspaper. Its website thisamericanlife.org said the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published the photo of a book containing a hand written replica of the original recipe on February 8,1979.

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Plz Be careful while eating apple

Be Careful when eating Apple. 

 

Please don't eat the skin of the apples because it's coated with wax. Check before you eat many of the fruits. Wax is being used for preservation purposes and cold storage. You might be surprised especially apples from USA and other parts are more than one year old, though it would look fresh. Becoz wax is coated, preventing bacteria to enter. So it does not get dry. Please Eat Apples after removing the wax.

plz beware and share it with your friends and family...

Also read some facts about apples

The honest Coca-Cola Obesity Commercial.

What if Coca Cola decides to tell the truth of how their products are damaging people's health worldwide..

Share for a widespread awareness!

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