Your road to Healthy Life

Quinoa wonderful grain which has glycemic index of around 53 is another grain that should be in your diet plan.

Diabetic friendly fruit papaya should be included in diet to keep sugar at bay. Reasons to include papaya rather than other fruits in our

Garlic is close relative of onion. From ancient times garlic has been in use mainly for health and medicinal purposes.

Often, we observe growth of molds on the food that we eat. Molds can grow on fruits, bread, cereals, old food, spices, nuts under warm and humid conditions. Molds are nothing but fungi and these molds produce and secrete toxic chemicals,

Molds can produce mycotoxins that are chemically stable toxins either before harvest or after harvest of crop, during storage, in or on the food itself often under warm, damp and humid conditions.

After consumption of contaminated foods, symptoms of consumption of mycotoxins can appear within a short time. Person can experience severe sickness.

Aflatoxins (AF) are most poisonous toxins. These are produced by specific fungi called Aspergillus. Two species of Asptergillus A. flavus and A. prasiticus that grow in soil , hay, grains, decaying matters are responsible for aflatoxin production.

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is produced by species of Penicillum and Aspergillus – Aspergillus ochraceus, A. carbonarius, A. niger and Penicillium verrucosum.