Khaike Paan Banaras Wala… There would hardly be anyone who would not have heard this song from superstar Abitabh Bachchan’s film Don. There is a lot of craze for eating paan in India. Many states and cities of the country are famous only for paan. Some people like to eat sweet paan and some people like to eat jarda paan. Its history is also decades old. But now gradually modernity has taken its place in food habits also. The biggest examples of this are Chocolate Paan, Ice Cream Paan, Fire Paan, Smoke. But today we will tell you about smoke paan. After all, what is mixed in this paan, due to which people eat paan with burning fire and smoke.
Betel
India’s Uttar Pradesh state is especially known for eating betel and cultivating water. Apart from this, there are many states of India including Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Delhi, where people are fond of eating betel leaf. But modernity in food habits has destroyed the reality of those food items. There are many examples of this. For example, samosa is being made into Chinese samosa by adding noodles instead of potatoes. Maggi is being added to Golgappa instead of water. Bun butter is being sold by adding Lalu’s Tikki instead of butter. Many such experiments are being done with food items. Some of these experiments are being liked very much by the public. But the question is whether the body is ready to tolerate all types of food and drink? The latest case is from Bengaluru, where a twelve year old girl smoked paan and her stomach got pierced.
Which chemical/gas is there in the smoke paan?
Liquid nitrogen gas is found in smoke pan. First of all let us understand what nitrogen gas is. Let us tell you that like oxygen, nitrogen is present in abundance in the atmosphere, it is a colorless and tasteless gas. In science its symbol is N2. Now let us tell you what liquid nitrogen gas is. Let us tell you that when the temperature of nitrogen goes below -195.8 degrees Celsius, then it gets converted into liquid form. The temperature never falls this low on Earth, so it is converted into liquid artificially. Today, liquid nitrogen is being used in many places including medical science, automobile and engineering.
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According to a report in BBC Magazine, Chef Heston Blumenthal was the first to open his restaurant ‘The Fat Duck’ Items containing liquid nitrogen were included in the menu. Like- Nitro Scrambled Egg and Ice Cream. After this many restaurants started using it. However, according to experts, nitrogen gas does not harm the body. But when this gas converts into liquid, its temperature becomes very low. If it is not used properly due to being too cold, it can cause serious harm to the body.
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