Critical Review on Artificial Food Preservatives and their Impact on Health w.s.r. Dushivisha
Journal Title: International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharmaceutical Chemistry - Year 2018, Vol 0, Issue 0
Abstract
Every living organism needs food to live. Foods have many nutrients such as carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins or minerals. These nutrients present in food are ingested and absorbed by an organism to produce energy stimulate growth and maintain life. The food has limited shelf life, in order to increase the shelf life and maintain the quality certain artificial preservative are used. These preservatives having chemicals in it easily enters into food chain and then accumulate into human body. Thus shows various types of cumulative toxic effects to the human beings and.may have some harmful effects. This concept is explained in Ayurveda as Dushivisha. By using this concept, we can understand the cumulative toxicities due to various toxins present in the food and treat them by using the principles of Ayurved.
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Amrita Baidya, S S Suryawanshi
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