Eating is a big thing in our lives

Eating is a big thing in our lives. The Asian communities have always used the joy of eating to build business and unite families. However for much of the western world this has not always been so.

With the advent of a mega range of cooking shows on TV, Radio and print media and further combined with the globalisation things have changed dramatically.

These changes has brought about the importing or products from countries globally and with it changes in food technology.

These changes are not necessarily good. Many packaged goods on our supermarket shelves are now full of so many numbered ingredients that you can hardly call it food in fact they are mostly chemically modified versions of food. This of course is not limited to imported goods. Many local products are the same.

For example, recently in a large supermarket chain in Australia I decided to examine the ingredients in a bread in the fresh bakery section. This bread had no less