Sweet Temptations
This Blog is more about the comparison between use of Chocolate vs Traditional Indian Sweets use in Celebrations. It's not long when TV commercials in early 90's started showing the use of chocolate in everything good😕.
So recently the Chocolate TV commercial showed; if you are about to start something new(sort of new venture) you must sweeten the mouth, this struck me and i being brought up in hosuehold where my mother use to make us eat SWEET CURD,so does really putting chocolate in every sphere possibe and propagated by commercials neccessary.
Some basic facts about chocolate :-
- most used popular food type and flavour in the world.
- mostly the constituent of desserts,cakes,puddings,mousse,brownies,syrups,ice creams.
- chocolate bars,either made of solid chocloate/ingredient coated in chocolate are now eaten as sancks.
- gifts of chcoloate molded into different shapes(eggs, hearts,coins) are increasingly becoming traditional.
- most liked drinks eg. milkshakes and beverages are a talking trend of DIY
- most of people are now turning up for hot chocolate milk with choco chip as there daily driving force for outing.
What Constitutes Chocolate:-
Chocolate are of 3 types: Dark , Milk & White
Dark Chocolate:- Phenylethylalanine,Theobromine.It has highest amount of cocoa solids.Its toxic to dogs.
Milk Chocolate:- Vanillin( confectioners use it to enhance its flavour),Butyric Acid( gives it the sour taste).
White Chocolate:- It DOSENOT contain any COCOA SOLID.It Only contains COCOA BUTTER which only has large amounts of fats, mainly Stearic Acid and Palmitic Acid(both contribute in high levels of cholestrol).
Chocolate Effect On Brain:-
1)Dark Chocolate contains amino acid TRYPTOPHAN which brain uses to produce neurotransmitters i.e. SEROTONIN; this causes increase in overall feeling.
2)Cacao in Dark Chocolate releases ENDORPHINS from brain(which normally are released by brain during exercise)which lowers stress and gives general sense of well being.
3)Polyphenols an ANTI-OXIDANT, in Dark Chocolate reduces ANXIETY & DEPRESSION.
4) Phenylethylalanine in it produces "FEELING OF LOVE".
5) Theobromine natural component of CACAO is similar to caffiene, gives you an "HIGH" after consuming Dark Chocolate. For COCOA caffeine is added in it for the same effect.
YOU MIGHT SAY IF ALL THAT IS ACHIEVED BY CHOCOLATE THEN WHY AM I DEBATING AGAINST ITS USE,BASICALLY ANY THING DOESNT COME FOR FREE; THE ECSTATIC SENSE ACHIEVED BY IT WILL ONLY MAKE YOU CRAVE FOR MORE, AND AS SAYING GOES"EXCESS OF EVERYTHING IS BAD".
CHOCOLATES CAUSE DEPRECIATION IN EMOTIONS:-
Daily we see as with gadgets the repeated use of any feature initially excites us but later on it seeps in us sense of being lost and boredom.
Same is with gifting Chocolates ; it feels cool but is it? You can ask yourself this by seeing same packaging shuffling around in all hoseholds,this results in EMOTIONAL BLUNTING a hard word to use but it has relevance here,as you will see:
INDIAN TRADITIONAL SWEETS, is more apt for DIY culture, has innate sense of feeling connected to the culture, Ocassional demand, Made out Ghee which is all in all healthy, Mostly has a variety or i would say spectrum of sorts to choose from,every sweet has veriety of ingredients added to it.
where as; CHOCOLATES, all of the same looking,similar tastes,no variety as in basic ingridient is same which ever form you may select,no sense of being connected to culture(its a trend and trends dont stay for too long).Moreover you can't just wrap chcocolate around cashews & almonds and replace it on shelves instead of sweets.
KUCH SWAAD HAI ZINDAGI MEIN? WHO AM I TO SAY, IT'S UP TO YOU TO DECIDE?
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