Maida flour has become part and parcel of bakery industry. All the delicious stuffs, bread everything is made up of Maida flour. Maida flour is prepared from wheat by removing the proteins, roughage or dietary fiber substances. The wheat which is separated from proteins and roughage is bleached using benzoic peroxide and it will be softened by mixing a chemical called aloxanes, making maida flour to have many chemical components.
Maida flour was banned in many countries but because of political lobby and other things ban was taken back and maida is available in every country serving people with delicious bakery items. At least few of you might remember in earlier days maida mixed with hot water being used as gum to stick wall posters. May be this is the reason to name Maida as all purpose flour!
Recent research has also shown that using Maida increases the chances of human beings becoming diabetic. The chemical aloxanes used in maida can destroy the beta cells of pancreas which produce insulin to lower sugar levels in human beings. Not only maida all the flour which is available in market will have aloxanes mixing which gives softness to the flour and taste to the tongue. You may also observe that the flour you get by wheat or rice or any pulses will not be as soft as that of maida.
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