In English
When you look at the protein content in the food stuff available, that which is not cooked as such contains a large amount of protein. Take for example, the pulses, the different types of pulses that you can think of, like , . Even the foreigners tend to use them, for instance, soybeans. And the Indians proudly call the ground bean India soybeans. Here the protein content is quite a bit. Now, what do we really do to these pulses available like this? What we do to these pulses by way of cooking or is boil them and deprive them of the basic nutritious content that they have. Take for example, the green gram - the as we put it, The Black-Eyed Peas. The way of eating them is, soak them in water, and then after they become palatable, eat them. They come to you in their richness. Because we are victims to this palate or tongue of ours, and taste and our whims and fancies, what do we do? Get hold of all these, boil them, subject them to various types of transformations in the form of adding oil and various other ingredients. In the process, deprive them of the basic contents, deprive ourselves of what they can give us. Take for example the fruit then. In the fruits also, what you have is nothing but vitamins. In vegetables, they can give you any amount of strength. Or, take, for example, a chili plant. The chili could be just this small, a small one like this, that would be enough to give you taste for the . But today, you find the same chili bloated up out of all proportions and a huge big one. You get a large number of these chilis, put them in the a small tumbler full, until you don’t get the taste. What's the reason? You are now feeding these plants with artificial manure. As a result, they really do not have the innate strength which ought to have been there.