Are you too lazy to live?: Dangerous artificial butter in Microwave Popcorn

Butter is good and beneficial for health and the body. But how about artificial or fake butter? Are both the same? One is loaded with fats, and the latter is fat and cholesterol free. Don't the artificial butter sounds better and healthier? I mean cholesterol and fat free right? Let's find out.

Today, we are going to talk a bit about butter, fake butter and popcorn, particularly the microwaveable ones. These days, we have a long list of artificial food substances. From artificial sweeteners to flavouring, artificial butter is not as well-known as other artificial toxic ingredients. Not many people heard of artificial butter flavouring but they have no idea why queuing up for the cinema popcorn is almost a MUST before the showtime. Tons of movie-goers consume cinema popcorn during the show, but few know the hidden ingredients of this movie snack which could be devastating and harmful to our body and health. I know, you must be thinking, "Who cares?" Popcorn is a popcorn.

Apart from sugars, transfat and perhaps MSG and soybean found in commercial microwavable popcorn products, a hidden ingredient called diacetyl is lurking in your cinema snack. Most of the microwavable popcorn products contain this chemical, which is actually a byproduct found in fermentation of beer and butter. It gives one an addictive buttery taste and flavor, and you keep coming back for more every single time. With diacetyl combined with sugars and transfat in commercial popcorn, it would be hard to resist. This substance is not only found in cinema popcorn, but also in most microwavable popcorn products, margarines, snack foods, pet foods and some cardonnay wines as well.

Diacetyl, can in fact pass through the blood brain barrier and cause some serious damage to the brain. The blood brain barrier primarily meant to protect the brain from toxins, doesn't seem to be able to keep away this substance. Remember MSG and Aspartame? We all have been told that those chemicals are safe for human consumption by the FDA, but guess what happen? More people are realizing that these excitotoxins are dangerous and should be avoided at all cost. We have been lied again and again by the food industries and the one administration which suppose to protect us, the FDA.

For whoever consume microwavable popcorn regularly, take note, unless you are trying to get respiratory problems and Alzheimer's disease? Food flavoring and microwave popcorn factory workers suffered respiratory and other health problems as diacetyl has been strongly linked. Diacetyl also shown to increase beta-Amyloid clumping, as it directly associated with Alzheimer's disease. Lungs and brain damage, this is seriously bad. Not only commercial popcorn are most likely GMOs, but they are laden with other nasty chemicals too. Once you pop a corn, the blood sugar roller coaster kicks in.

How can I make healthier popcorn?

First of all, healthy foods or meals, come from self preparation and made in your own kitchen. Below is how you can make your own popcorn snacks, a much safer yet nutritious way of eating it. Make your own popcorn when you go to cinema. It's so simple, 10 mins of preparation time is all you need!

1) Organic corn kernels (doesn't matter how much, depends on your appetite and cravings)

2) Organic coconut oil ( you can use organic butter too)

3) Sea salt

4) Organic red palm oil (do not use the highly processed commercial palm oil!) (optional)

Instructions:

Add 2 tablespoon of coconut oil or butter and mix it with corn kernels in pot. Stir well and close the lid. Heat them up with high temperature and the kernels should pop like firecrackers. Once kernels are done with popping, pour them into a bowl. Add a few pinch of sea salt into the ready to eat popcorn. If you desire, add half teaspoon of red palm oil and mix it well with the popcorn. It's done!

P/S: By using coconut oil or butter, it will change the glycemic load and lower the glycemic index of popcorn.