Have you ever seen a video on the internet shared by someone ? Where the people are from villages in India and most of them at least mostly eat street food there.
Of course if we look at the video, street food in rural India is "less hygienic ” in serving food, sometimes stall owners or sellers use their hands without being protected by gloves or other PPE such as mouth masks.
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Okay if you see vendors always washing their hands with soap when they are about to sell, what if they don't, what if the street vendors use their hands to pick up something for example picking up money that fell on the ground or unconsciously scratching their intimate areas then when there is a buyer he immediately uses the scratched hand to make it, is it not more disgusting?
Now of course this is also an important point that most rural foods there become a scourge of disease in the future for the connoisseurs, but maybe you have wondered why Indians do not get sick when eating unhygienic food.
And on this occasion i will give some reasons why they don't seem to feel sick when consuming rural street food in India, well are you curious ? let's discuss together.
1. Using Lime
Who says they are unhygienic? Well, maybe the sellers are unhygienic, but did you know that some street food in India uses more seasoning in the form of a mixture of salt and lime in the batter?
Well it could be that they have added lime to the food they are about to serve, either pre-squeezed or when served to customers.
Lime can inhibit the growth of E. Coli bacteria that cause diarrhea, so of course the addition of lime on top of the topping can prevent people who eat it from getting unwanted diseases such as diarrhea, besides the presence of lime can also add to the taste of the snack to be fresher.
2. Buying Medicine Frequently
Who says Indians don't get sick ? They may get sick but there has never been a case of death like the incident of the foreign tourist who ate the Indian street food.
Yes they can get severe diarrhea but they also go to the nearest pharmacy to buy diarrhea relief medicine, so of course this can happen considering not all Indians don't feel pain when eating unhygienic food.
3. Already Immune
It's true, when you first try to eat unhygienic food, indeed at first the body will reject all of these foods because the body's defense in the form of white blood cells will continue to fight the bacteria contained therein, the effect you can get a fever / stomach ache and even diarrhea.
However, when you get used to it and the body is able to adapt to drinking sewage water will not make you sick anymore, and maybe that's what people in rural India feel, they are used to eating unhygienic food in small amounts but often.
And that's why until now it is rare for native rural communities in India to experience what is called severe illness or even death.
Conclusion
Maybe that's just some information I know based on my assumptions of why Indians don't seem to get sick when eating Indian food or snacks that are often seen on YouTube.
They're probably used to going to the pharmacy and maybe some of them don't feel too much pain because again, it's based on everyone's different defense systems.