Sunday, July 18, 2010
Informative !
In Tamilnadu, in Salem area on the road from Salem to Coimbatore there are many saboodana factories. We start getting terribly bad smell when we are about 2 kms away from the factories.
Saboodana is made by root like sweet potato. Kerala has this root each weighing about 6 kgs. Factory owners buy these roots in bulk during season, make it to pulp and put it in pits of about 40ft x 25ft. Pits are in open ground and the pulp is allowed to rot for several months. Thousands of tons of roots rot in pits. There are huge electric bulbs throughout the night where millions of insects fall in the pits.
While pulp is rotting, water is added everyday due to which 2" long white colour eel is automatically born like pests are born automatically in gutter. The walls of pits are covered by
millions of eels and factory owners with the help of machine crush the pulp with the eels who also become paste. This action is repeated many times during 5-6 months.
The pulp is thus ready as roots and millions & millions of pests and insects crushed and pasted together. This paste is then passed through round mesh and made into small balls and then polished. This is saboodana.
This might be the reason why many people don't eat Saboodana treating this as non-vegetarian.
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I'm confused on how eels get in this pit? The article says water is added every day, does the water come from a well or maybe the ocean? I can only presume wherever the water is taken from there is eel larva or a baby eel in it and this is how they get in these pits? Also, I’m sure the smell of the rotting roots is horrid; from what I research Saboodana is Tapioca?
ReplyDeleteIn India is there not a standard health code in which factories have to abide by to make such products for the consumers of India? To make sure factories keep areas clean of filth and possible diseases caused by such things? Does India have food inspectors to oversee that these things do not happen as claimed in the article. If not, these factories will continue operating under such filth. Isn’t there any repercussion from how they run? If people know that this is happening why aren’t they doing anything about it? The consumers of India should demand better quality of their food staples and if they did, maybe this tragic and disgusting way of the factories will not continue. Indians should demand higher standards for better living. By what this article says, it makes me sad and grosses me out.
This is a big hoax, my friend.
ReplyDeleteSingh et al. (2007), Industrial production, processing, and utilization of sago palm-derived products. Carbohydrate Polymers Volume 72, Issue 1, 3 April 2008, Pages 1-20.
I am not sure if these is the real method may be these link may give the real answer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapioca
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