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> India ranks second after China in the global diabetes epidemic with 77 million people with diabetes (google) Maybe it went up by 2% only, but it depends what
by jajko 2y ago
> India ranks second after China in the global diabetes epidemic with 77 million people with diabetes (google)
Maybe it went up by 2% only, but it depends what were the actual numbers to start with. I've spent 6 months backpacking all over that country and although food is top notch, the sweets are ridiculously bad, often just distilled sugar with some (rather good) flavoring like safron.
I guess when you scorch all your taste buds since early age with all those chillies (its quite common to just eat raw chillies as a side dish to already crazy spicy foods on levels that most westerners going to their local indian restaurants will never experience), then to get any sensation from sweets they have to go over board.
- roncesvalles 2y agoThe culture around sweets in India is different than from the West. You're supposed to eat one little square piece of a sweet or a couple of gulab jamun balls and that's it. Indians don't sit with a big plate of Indian sweets like it's the "dessert" course of their meal. That's why Western sweets are less sweet. You don't just eat a single one-inch cube of cheesecake, you eat a whole plate-sized portion of it which is like ten such cubes. Naturally it can't be as sweet as an Indian sweet. Even growing up my parents said you're supposed to eat 1 Skittle and put the packet away (no joke). The fact that people in the West snack on a whole packet of Skittles was a culture shock.