These are pictures of office food court:
While the images may look great; and in fact I am still in awe of these beautiful food courts; the menu of most of the vendors is something to worry about. The menus are mostly filled with junk food. Young folks can be seen piling up their plates with oily, fatty, processed and junk food. How long are they going to take to wake up to the health hazard of junk food?
The reason we never find home-like food in outside restaurants is that the restaurants believe that when people have gone outside to buy food, they must be looking at some "fun". Health takes back seat and taste is the top most priority. In order to bring out best of the taste, experimentation is the key. And hence I have seen chefs in TV shows adding sugar to salty dishes, adding curd to hot food items, adding tea granules in normal dishes and things like these. No one knows for sure what all went into a dish in order to prepare it. There is no "ingredient list" when it comes to restaurant cooked food. You ask for a good tea and the vendor will add some kind of 'masala' into it; to give it a distinct flavor.
Are all ingredients going into the dish safe for health? Are combinations of different items safe together? No one knows. Occasionally we keep hearing rumored stories of restaurants using unhealthy, adulterated, stale and unsafe items into the food; just to increase their profitability. There is no guarantee anymore if you eat outside.
And the situation is going worse because of the convenience brought in by numerous 'food-ordering apps'. You do not need to even make a phone call in order to get outside-cooked delicious food; made of only God knows what ingredients.
I wish our young generation could be more health conscious. As they say, devil is in the details. We should go into details even if it kills the instant fun a bit. Because in the end, there is nothing as precious as health.
- Rahul Tiwary
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