BENEFITS OF COOKING IN EARTHERN POTS

REASONS TO PICK CLAY POTS IN DAILY LIFE

Another valuable and health-related topic led by Healthtech01. Due to enhancement in modernization and western culture, our Indian treats and rituals are in books or can say in papers only but, who cares for all these; and I must say according to everyone's opinion that we INDIANS are basic in everything and so do our living and working patterns. This is the reason for the adaptation of western culture. 

 

Today Healthtech01 get you with some similar thing like the use of earthen pots to make life a better living, let’s together see how? 

 

ORIGIN OF MAGIC/EARTHERN POTS

Pottery is from the historic period. Like in the late earlier fluid matter, is being carried out in woven material containers lined with the clay at the river. When after, water is taken out from them, the woven container gets dried and its layers of material get separated that make these containers for one-time use. 

So, as with the change in the living of humans compare to our ancestor's like so, the changes have come in the thought process and research process; after all these men and women decided to make the some of the changes in the clay which was taken from the river bank and add some material with it to make it strong enough to settle its solid property even after water/ fluid absent. 

Egyptians, Ancient Greek, German potters and even the Chinese are there to lead the earthen pots in shaping them which people are using. 

 

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 THIS IS ALL ABOUT THE HISTORY, BUT WHAT IS THE SCIENCE BEHIND USING EARTHEN POTS. 

Have you ever wondered the water store in clay pot gets cool? 

Clay pots absorb some of the water to the pots, which makes the pot walls well moist, due to surrounding temperatures this water of the pot gets evaporated. We know for the liquid to get evaporated it requires heat energy from the surrounding (here surroundings is the water which is stored in the pot). 

 

One of the benefits of the clay pots is they are alkaline; the alkaline nature of the clay neutralized the acid which is present in the water and milk. This is the reason why ancient people are more likely to prefer clay pots for their household needs.  

 

DO YOU KNOW? 

According to the experiment conducted in a government laboratory in India, has revealed that lentils cooked in a clay pot survived at 36- hours in a non-air-conditioned train journey on a hot day, without spoiling and with 100% of the micronutrient intact and gut pH loving. 

 

WHY PEOPLE DO NOT COOK FOOD IN EARTHERN CLAY POTS? 

This is due to clay pots took a long time to cook food as it is a slower process than usual cooking. But it is healthier for the body and also has more taste than the usual one.  

 

BENEFITS FOR USING THEM 

1. THEY ARE ALKALINE.  

Clay is alkaline in nature and it interacts with the acidity present in the food and helps the gut to follow the natural process of digestion by using the stomach acid and intestine alkaline pH; which makes life longer and helps prevent aging and disease.

2.BENEFITS BY GIVING MICRONUTRIENTS.

  

It's believed that required minerals like calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and Sulphur that benefit health/ body are present in clay mud which helps in the functioning of the body by preventing the shortage of minerals and nutrients to the body.

  

3. SLOW COOKING IS BENEFICIARY 

The gentle cooking property of clay pots also plays a big role in preserving the nutrients inherent in any food. 

An experiment led this discovery and created the difference in the presence of nutrients in the food cooked by both steal vessels and clay made vessels.  

 

4.SAFE AND NON-TOXIC 

The most compelling reason to start cooking in unglazed earthen pots is from the one thing that it doesn’t do –leaching the harmful materials into your food. 

Which means it is impossible to have a lead and cadmium toxicity in food. 

5. LESSER USAGE OF OIL 

Due to its heat resistance and slow cooking, the food retains all its oil and moisture. Therefore the requirement of extra oil and fatty food for providing moisture to your food reduces.  

 

6.BETTER FOR PLANET 

Apart from being excellent for just health, unglazed earthen pots promise you for being environmentally friendly. As they chiefly come from the soil, they briskly decompose right back to the soil, when you dispose of them, to be smoothly bio-degradable product, unlike Teflon pans and steel pots which take up space in goodwill aisles or fill-up landfills. 

7. KEEP BACTERIA AWAY 

Cook from south India swears by unglazed earthen-pots as the secret of their delicious fish curry. They claim Fish-curry cooked in earthen pots can stay unspoiled at room temperature, sometimes for up to 2 days, a 19th- century physician and scientist who used clay as a wound disinfectant and a cure for bacterial infections like cholera, and popularized the idea that clay is inhospitable to the growth of certain kinds of bacteria.