Leave the spoon, eat with your hands! Know why the craze for this Desi style is increasing even abroad.

In today's modern era, where people consider eating with a spoon and fork a symbol of style and cleanliness, the habit of eating with hands like our grandmother's time is slowly disappearing. 

In today's modern era, where people consider eating with a spoon and fork a symbol of style and cleanliness, the habit of eating with hands from our grandmother's time is slowly disappearing. Eating with hands is not just a tradition, but is beneficial from a scientific and Ayurvedic point of view. But despite this, the trend of eating with a spoon has increased in the last few decades in the entire world including India. So is eating with a spoon a fashion or is it better for your health? Does eating with hands spoil your image, do people consider you backward and is eating with a spoon called modern? Today we will find out the answers to these questions.

 

According to Sanatan culture, our body is made up of five elements and fingers represent different elements. Thumb is associated with fire, while the index finger is associated with air. Similarly, the middle finger is associated with sky and the ring finger is associated with earth while the little finger is associated with water. When you eat food by combining these five points, it affects different parts of our body.

 

 

 

 

 

Benefits of eating with hands:

Various studies have shown that eating with hands has many benefits. Let's find out what?

1. Strong digestive system

Our digestive system improves and food is digested faster. According to Ayurveda, when you put food in your mouth, you move your fingers in the form of yoga mudras which helps in faster digestion of food.

2. Blood circulation

As you move your hands, many things in the body change. This keeps the blood circulation of your body correct.

3. Identification of hot and cold

When you eat food, the points of your fingers feel the temperature of the food and you are able to guess how hot or cold the food is. The brain works accordingly.

4. Ease in digestion

While eating with hands, we are able to understand how much to eat, what to eat, at what speed to eat, which makes digestion easier.

5. Avoid overeating

Eating with hands keeps the quantity of food limited, which reduces the need to eat too much.

What is written in the scriptures?

There is a cultural connection behind eating with hands. It is written in the scriptures that food is Brahma, juice is Vishnu and the consumer is Maheshwar. By eating with hands, we show our respect towards food and there are many verses related to food intake in our scriptures.

When did eating with a spoon begin?

Now let us tell you when did eating with a spoon start. The use of spoons with handles started in ancient Egypt 3000 years ago. First spoons were made of stone and then of wood. Metal spoons became popular much later. During the Greek and Roman empires, spoons were often made of bronze and silver and were mostly used by rich people. According to English history, the first mention of a spoon is found in the cupboard of Edward I in 1259. Words like Kushpatra, Charu, Sarvani have been used in Sanskrit texts and Ayurvedic texts, which point to objects like spoons.

The spoon market is worth more than 12 thousand crores

Actually, in western countries, there has always been a culture of wearing gloves due to extreme cold and more non-veg food is consumed. That is why forks, knives and spoons are used more. Today, the spoon market in the whole world is worth more than 12 thousand crores rupees and by 2030 it will increase to more than 18 thousand crores rupees. The cutlery industry in the world is worth about 1.5 lakh crores.

So how will you eat it?

Eating with hands or spoon is a matter of your liking or disliking. But eating with a spoon will make you modern and eating with hands will not make you backward. If you eat with hands, then clean your hands properly before eating. By the way, you will also agree that eating with hands gives us a sense of self-satisfaction. How do you like to eat and what kind of eating gives you self-satisfaction.

Disclaimer: Dear reader, thank you for reading this news. This news has been written only to make you aware. We have taken the help of general information in writing this. If you read anything related to your health anywhere, then definitely consult a doctor before adopting it.