Is there anything wrong with not eating sugar? From morning tea to sweets. Sugar adds sweetness not only to our food, but also to our lives. Without this sugar, we would not be able to eat foods like sweets, chocolate, cakes or soft drinks. But where did this sugar come from and how did it reach our kitchen? Sugar and then brown sugar were first made in India from sugarcane juice. Historical books and various reports from India and abroad provide evidence of this. According to a research report titled ‘A History of Sugar: The Food Nobody Needs, But Everyone Craves’ published by the British media outlet network ‘The Conversation’, sugar was made in India around 2,500 years ago, i.e. 500 BC. From here, the technology to make it spread eastwards to China and reached the Middle East via Iran. In the first century, the historian Pliny the Elder, who wrote the encyclopedia ‘Naturalis Historia’, said that Indian sugar was better than sugar made in Arabia. It is said that sugar first reac...
Why is meat digested slowly? Who doesn't love meat dishes? There are many people who consider weddings, parties and feasts as incomplete without meat dishes. Meat is also a food rich in nutrients, but it takes a long time to digest. Meat contains elements such as fat, protein, minerals and minerals. Since meat contains a lot of protein, it remains in the stomach for a long time after eating. Because it takes more time to digest protein food than carbohydrate food. To put it simply, it does not take time to digest meat, it takes time to digest fat. Carbohydrates and fiber-rich foods are digested within a few hours, while fat in meat is digested only after bile is released from the liver into the small intestine. There are also different types of meat. The meat is tender, tough, with lots of bones and lots of fat. It is easy to digest the meat of khasi, goat or sheep, while hard, fibrous, red meat takes a long time to digest. Khasi and venison are classified as red meat, while chick...