Kurkure ingredients. No plastic in crisp, know truth and healthy snack options

Crunchy, chips and other packaged snacks have become the first choice from children to elders in today’s time. But there are often rumors on social media that snacks like crisp contain plastic, which is very dangerous for health. In such a video, crisp is shown by burning and it is claimed that it has plastic because it melts and burns black. But is it really so? Let’s know its truth.

Actually, there is no plastic in crisp. These are made from foods like maida, rice flour, corn flour and potato starch. When frying them, due to starch and oil present in them, they become black when burning and burns for a while, which can look like plastic. But this is just an illusion. Burning the crisp cannot be ascertained whether it has plastic in it. This requires scientific testing, which is possible only in the library. The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has also made it clear many times that products like crisp do not contain plastic.

However, it is equally true that crisp and other packaged snacks contain excessive amounts of oil, salt, preservatives and flaving agents which can be harmful to health. Consuming them can cause problems like weight gain, blood pressure, heart diseases and obesity in children. So if you want to be healthy and take care of family health, then it would be better to make healthy snacks at home.

It is not a difficult task to make crisp things like crisp at home. You can make an easy and crisp recipe by mixing gram flour, rice flour, rava (semolina), salt, turmeric, and some spices. If you want, instead of deep frying, you can also prepare them in the air fryer. Apart from this, snacks made of roasted gram, peanuts, makhana, oats or whole grains are also a good option which is delicious as well as healthy.