#Headline Creation Challenge#India Sango is so strange, the whole world is busy eliminating betel nut, but they grow it in large quantities, why is that? Aren't ordinary Indians afraid of cancer? As people pay more and more attention to their own health and understand betel nut, they gradually realize the harm of betel nut, especially when a person died of cancer due to eating betel nut some time ago, which is a wake-up call. But the strange thing is that at a time when other countries are abandoning this fruit, India is still growing on a large scale.
First of all, let's take a look at how many betel nuts there area? According to the statistics of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in the early 90s of last century, India's betel nut production was only 250,000 tons, but by 2020 it exceeded 900,000 tons, and the growth momentum was quite terrifying, ranking first in the world. Globally, there are only 11 countries that grow betel nuts, and according to the data, all countries except India do not produce betel nuts combined. This phenomenon has many friends wondered, when betel nuts are becoming more and more unpopular, why are they still growing in large quantities? What do Indians mean by doing the opposite?
As we all know, betel nut is very harmful, and now people have gradually abandoned this food, and there are more and more claims about eating betel nut to cause cancer, resulting in people not being enthusiastic about betel nut, but India is still growing in large quantities. Last year's FAO data showed that Indian betel nut can be sold for 46 yuan a kilogram at its highest, even at the lowest price can be sold for 32 yuan a kilogram, and the locals can collect 6,000 yuan per acre, compared with the common crop peanuts, peanuts can only receive more than 800 yuan per mu, which is 7.5 times more. Secondly, eating betel nut is the rise of Southeast Asian countries, and then spread to India, according to data, about 600 million people around the world eat betel nut, its status is second only to tobacco, alcohol and coffee. Indian people have gradually developed the habit of eating betel nut, whether men and women, old and young, they are not only a big producer of betel nut, but also a big consumer, and there is a more important reason, that is, eating betel nut in India even has religious significance, as a deep-rooted religious country, you can imagine how difficult it is for them to quit betel nut.
Now that we've talked about the reasons why India grows betel nuts, let's take a look at how Indian betel nuts are different from the betel nuts we eat? It's a world of difference, Indian betel nut turned out to be red, what is going on? In fact, the newly picked betel nut is green, the fruit is grown in bunches, and then the workers will knock the betel nut off, and then the Indian woman will appear, skillfully remove the skin with a knife, and then put the betel nut fruit into a large pot to steam, and dye it with the red soup boiled from Indian blackberries, and the removed betel nut skin is not wasted, it becomes ready-made fuel, cooked and fished out to dry, it has become the Indian characteristic red betel nut that we often see on the Internet.
Seeing this, some friends asked, why do they eat betel nut fruit, while most of us eat betel nut peel? In fact, the way of betel nut peel originated from Hunan, is a dry food method, hundreds of years has been this way of eating, so widely spread throughout the country, although the peel will reduce the risk of cancer, but advise everyone to eat less. Speaking of Indian betel nut, in order to develop the betel nut business, the Indian people can be described as a variety of tricks, research a variety of betel nut eating methods, what with fire, with ice, a brain into the customer's mouth, gradually formed a unique scenery in India, many tourists specially rushed to eat betel nut, and even carving artists specialized in carving betel nut, but also while riding a motorcycle while carving, I was convinced. What do you think about this? Welcome to leave a message to discuss.