Iodine is not present in Iodised -salt
The common table salt with a little amount of iodine is widely advertised as a remedy for mental retard ness and goiter. But what is the fact?
Iodine is very volatile and it is lost during Indian style of cooking. In Indian kitchens the food items are generally boiled in a curry of spices and in open bowls like karahi or in pressure cookers.
Prepare a solution of common salt in water and put a few drops over a piece of wet bread or any food item containing starch. It will turn blue-black and this is the starch test, which is generally done in labs for identification of iodine.
Now boil the salt solution and put a few drops again over the same starch sample and you will be surprised to see that there is no iodine in it and it fails to give the blue-black colour.
Therefore, be sure that your daily meals are deficient in Iodine. You are buying it but not using wisely.
The Government of India and some other countries has banned sells of iodine–less salt and made it mandatory to mix a particular amount of iodine in common salt. The lobby behind its use in common salt has gained millions of money after packing the cheap natural product in attractive packing.
The scientists in many developing countries are not doing their own research and just following western science without any hitch and doubt and this is the real cause of our nonsense ‘mimicry’ in the field of scientific research.
In western countries, generally food is boiled first and salt is mixed in cool foodstuffs superficially. The iodine content remains present there. But in our country we just read and copy the scientific research documents and try our own ‘settings’ to earn money and fame anyway…
Iodine is very volatile and it is lost during Indian style of cooking. In Indian kitchens the food items are generally boiled in a curry of spices and in open bowls like karahi or in pressure cookers.
Prepare a solution of common salt in water and put a few drops over a piece of wet bread or any food item containing starch. It will turn blue-black and this is the starch test, which is generally done in labs for identification of iodine.
Now boil the salt solution and put a few drops again over the same starch sample and you will be surprised to see that there is no iodine in it and it fails to give the blue-black colour.
Therefore, be sure that your daily meals are deficient in Iodine. You are buying it but not using wisely.
The Government of India and some other countries has banned sells of iodine–less salt and made it mandatory to mix a particular amount of iodine in common salt. The lobby behind its use in common salt has gained millions of money after packing the cheap natural product in attractive packing.
The scientists in many developing countries are not doing their own research and just following western science without any hitch and doubt and this is the real cause of our nonsense ‘mimicry’ in the field of scientific research.
In western countries, generally food is boiled first and salt is mixed in cool foodstuffs superficially. The iodine content remains present there. But in our country we just read and copy the scientific research documents and try our own ‘settings’ to earn money and fame anyway…
