What is Organic Food

Hi, there.

   Let's talk about organic food. What does it mean to you ? Definitely, it is a kind of food that is compliance to quality. It's eco friendly and focus on natural growth. After-all, it could protect our our health and earth condition so that our next generation will be secured. 

   How does it work ? Starting from its seeds, it does not apply any chemical materials like fertilizer, pesticides and herbicide. And more importantly, it can not have artificial perservative, coloring, and flavoring. It should be GMO free which mean fresh produce, with out genetically modified organism (different or modified DNA).  In fact, when it was cooked, it would taste far more nicer and kind of natural.
 
   So, how would it grow well and get rid of pest ?  Hmm, actually farmer would use biological method like grow some plants that the pest fear of.  As for the crops process, it must follow organic crops standard where its land must have no prohibited substances for at least 3 years.  Soil fertility will be gained from crops rotation, Eg, 1st year with this plant, next year will be different plant.

 

   In general, organic food would normally cost 2 times costly than the non-organic foods. This is because its production cost is much higher. They use high cost organic fertilizer. In term of color and taste, some organics would look little bit different from the color we normally see. Eg, egg yolk , vegetable, fruit and  etc..

    Let's talk about benefits of organic food. Why do we need to eat organic food ?  Actually organic food can prevent us from eating chemical compound which are mostly found in the foods we eat daily. Without chemical compound, we can absorb optimum nutrition from the foods. It's more fresher.
   Organic farming would have least detrimental to environment. It reduce pollution, increase soil fertility and save more energy for the earth. 
    Speaking of organic fruit, it can provide more antioxidant nutrition. 
    As for the organic meat and milk, they are richer in term of nutrient. The livestock does not take any antibiotic and chemical fertilizer. 

What are their main products in this industry ? 

• Baby series (soymilk,brown rice,oats,coconut oil ..etc...)
• Beans (black eyed pea,millet,black bean,soya bean, ..etc...)
• Nut (almond, brasil nut, cashew nut, pecan, walnut, etc...)
• Beverage (malt,blueberry,white fungus, etc...)
• Grains (pearl barley, quinoa, millet, etc...)
• Dry fruits (goji berry, plum,dried cherry,black raisin, etc..)
• Flour  (coconut flour, multi grain flour,wholemeal flour, etc...)
• Healthy snacks (grain cracker, nuts mix, Gullon cracker, etc..)
• Frozen foods (seaweed tofu,pumpkin tofu,man mushroom, etc..)
• Breads (Yooky bites-brown sugar chiffon,banana cake, yeast bread,veggie bun, etc..)
• Paste and seasoning (Bms organics-green curry paste, etc..)
• Plant based milk (oat flax,purple minoa, Olivia Lady oat milk, Olympeak Kid oatmilk, tiger mushroom soymilk, etc...)
• Noodle & Pasta (longevity noodle,spaghetti, spinach noodle, seaweed noodle, veggie ramen,mee sua, etc..) 
• Rice (5 grain rice, 10 grain rice, Basmati rice, etc...)
• Seeds (Black Sesame Seeds, Chia Seeds,Flax Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds, Sunflower Seeds, etc...)
• Coffee & Tea  (Vision coffee, Vision cocoa and etc..)

      Recommended balance diet by nutritionist :

• Grain (30%)
• Protein (20%)
• Fruit (20%)
• Vegetables (30%)

     Some foods should be minimized :

• Meat and egg - as it would make our body acidic; more time to digest...
• cow milk, harder to digest due to lactose
• white rice, white sugar, white salt, white flour, and white bread

     Some food should be encouraged :

• whole grain
• plant based milk Eg oatmilk, oatflax, soymilk and etc 
• bean 

   This is recommended healthy diet pyramid. Being on top is suggested to take less.

How do we avoid taking GMO foods? 
   

• Eat organic food
• Avoid foods containing ingredients from papaya, corn, soy, canola, sugar beets, and cotton (70% are GMO) in the market.
• Grow our own
• Look for certified GMO free products

GMO foods can cause bad health to our body if consumed long time. This could include damage to intestine, male fertility, altered blood biochemistry, heavier uteri, stomach inflamation, tumors and etc... 

  What are the certificates in the market ? There are quite many in the market. Eg USDA Organic and NASAA certified organic and etc...

 

BMS Organics is a Malaysian company who had been promoting organic foods and educating people about the benefits of taking organic foods since 1997. Now, it has over 50 outlets all over Malaysia. 

                      
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