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My mind says 'abs' but my heart says 'momos'
I am sure most of you like Momos like I do but are they good for our health?
Momos have become the king of street food in the past decade in India. Easily available, portable and with no paraphernalia needed other than a steamer, they are much easy, and are cheap too.
Momo is a type of East and South Asian steamed filled dumpling. Momo is native to Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, the Indian Himalayan Region of Ladakh, Sikkim, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Darjeeling. It is popular across a wider region of the Indian subcontinent. Momo is heavily influenced by Nepali cuisine with South Asian spices and herbs. Momo are extremely popular in Nepal and India and can be found in every kind of shop from restaurants to street vendors.
Momo are traditionally steamed but can also be deep fried or pan fried. Momo is usually served with chilli garlic sauce and pickled daikon in Tibet whereas in Nepal popular dipping sauces include tomato based chutneys or sesame based sauces, normally made with tomato as the base ingredient.
From the ingredients used to cook it to the way it is served and the condiments with which it is served, nothing really is healthy about this seemingly steamed-hence-healthy food.
Momos are made with maida which is the starchy part of the grain after the removal of its fibrous bran. Then, it is bleached with chemicals like Azodicarbonamide, chlorinegas, benzoyl peroxide, or other bleaches. Maida has also been suspected to contain traces of alloxans, a chemical that gives it the soft, refined texture.
Bleaching chemicals that are added to maida cause much harm to the pancreas, affecting its insulin-production ability. In fact, these bleaching agents are used to make diabetes occur in rodents for laboratory testing.
Alloxans are also harmful to pancreas and are responsible for causing insulin-dependent diabetes.
The vegetables and chicken used inside momos are stale or of a very poor standard.
One cannot be sure about the quality used by local momo-vendors. Also, an over-consumption of spicy foods is suspected to cause bleeding hemorrhoids.
So choose wisely what you want to eat and from where you want to eat as it plays an important role in maintaining your health.