Research: If you eat sprouts for weight loss, then know what research says, you can get sick

Including sprouted grains in the diet is considered a healthy option and nowadays people give sprouts a place in their daily routine to lose weight, but know what research says.

The trend of eating sprouted pulses and other sprouts has been a part of a healthy lifestyle since ancient times and nowadays the trend of eating sprouts has increased even more rapidly. Often people consider sprouts as a healthy option for weight loss. There are many benefits of eating sprouts and it is definitely a habit to adopt if you are worried about your obesity. But if you think that whatever the sprouted grain is, it is beneficial for health, then you are wrong, because if the seed is contaminated, chemical-rich, then it can also be fatal.

You can also sprout grains at your home, and it is possible to buy them from the market these days. The benefits of eating sprouts turn into disadvantages when the seeds are chemical-rich or sprouting has not been done hygienically or the sprouts have been contaminated in any way before you eat them. IVRI's research has revealed what diseases can be caused by contaminated and chemical-rich sprouts and how it should be eaten bacteria-free.

What diseases can be caused by contaminated or chemical-rich seeds?

By eating contaminated sprouts, you can get infected with many types of germs such as Salmonella (causing typhoid and para-typhoid), Listeria (meningitis, causing abortion) and Escherichia coli (causing vomiting, diarrhea) infection, cholera, dysentery etc.

How to eat sprouts

To avoid all these dangers, doctors often advise you to cook and eat sprouts, but by cooking, its vitamins and other elements are often eliminated or reduced to a great extent. The research done in Indian veterinary research has solved this problem to a great extent.

What do IVRI researchers say?

According to Dr. Bhojraj Singh, Senior Scientist, IVRI, if the sprouts are soaked in chlorinated water or vinegar for three hours, then such sprouts made from infection-free seeds, which get contaminated with bacteria for any reason, Can be sterilized and used for health benefits without any danger. If sprouts have also been prepared from infected seeds, then they also become infection free by this method.

How to identify whether the seed or grain is correct or not

Co-researcher Ravikant Agarwal said that this research also showed that if the seeds used for germination are already contaminated or infected with bacteria, then such seeds would swell if soaked in water in the process of germination, but very rarely. can germinate. From this you can already know whether the food which you consider to be healthy sprouts is really made from healthy seeds or not. It has been told in the research that vinegar or chlorinated water can also be used.

Vinegar (5% acetic acid), over-the-counter white vinegar or natural vinegar (made from fruit juices or sugarcane juice), pour over the sprouts in a bowl just enough to cover the sprouts and leave for three hours. Keep the bowl covered for a while, after that you can eat the sprouts by washing them with clean water.

To make chlorinated water, put 60 grams of bleaching powder in one liter of water, stir with a little spoon and keep it covered for 5 minutes, then filter it with a clean sieve and fill it in a lidded bottle and as much as necessary like vinegar Use it only. You can use this chlorinated water for two days. Nowadays tablets also come in the market to make chlorinated water. Instead of bleaching powder, you can also use sodium hypochlorite (it comes in liquid form) available at the chemist's shop (50 ml in one liter of water). With its use, you will not need to filter water.