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eWellness: Natural fast food is good for health

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Dr KK Aggarwal    28 October 2018

Natural fast food includes fruits, vegetables, milk products, sprouts and sattu. On the contrary, unnatural fast food, also called as junk food, is bad for heart health as it includes items like refined bad carbohydrates and either animal bad fat or trans fats. Sattu is a grounded roasted powder of soaked pulses and cereals. It is consumed along with fruit slices, gur or milk. Green chili, lemon juice and salt can be added to add flavor.The commonest form of sattu is grounded roasted black gram or chana. Other common variety is grounded roasted black gram with barley.Originally, sattu was made of seven Anaja (7 cereals, millets and pulses). The seven ingredients are maze and barley (cereals), black gram, pigeon gram or Arhar, green pea, kesari daal, kulath daal (pulses).Sattu is a high fiber diet with low sugar producing properties. It is a cooling ad refreshing fast food with anti diabetic and anti– obesity properties. It is a full breakfast, mid-day or lunch meal and has minerals and vitamins. It is both energy drink and energy food. So called energy drinks available in the market are harmful as they contain three times the caffeine content of coffee or tea. Sattu drink can be made sweet by adding gur or honey, sour by adding lemon and salted by adding black or rock salt. Roasting is one of the best forms of cooking. Sattu is both a fast food and a summer fast soft drink but healthy.

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