A short article covering food myths definitions.
Cooking food during a solar eclipse will poison the food! If you eat pop rocks with coke, you will explode! How about it takes 7 years for chewing gum to digest!
The above are food myths. Oxford dictionaries explain a myth as “A widely held but false belief or idea.
For many people eating food is one of their favorite pastimes. We often share with friends amazing facts about food which we later discover are scientifically incorrect. These were, in fact, food myths.
Generations have believed certain food myths. An example of this is that eating chocolate gives you acne. Research has shown that this is not true, but people still repeat this myth to teenagers. Eating carrots will help with night vision! This is a long-held myth which is not strictly correct.
A more recent myth is that organic foods contain more nutrients than inorganic. Nutrients are the same. It is the method of growing food that is different.
Enjoy that spicy curry it won't give you an ulcer! That myth is false. Particular bacteria in the stomach causes ulcers but if you enjoy that curry it will irritate an existing ulcer.
It is difficult these days to know what to eat and what to avoid. As quickly as science disapproves a myth, new ones pop up. Use your common sense or research further to determine if a food myth is true, and pity the housewife in Madagascar who cannot make mayonnaise when menstruating as it will curdle!