Chocolate and grains cooked by non-devotees

Some good reasons why chocolate cannot be offered:

By the regulations of the World Health Organization, chocolate is permitted to contain a percentage of insect bodies and rodent bodies – up to 120 insects and or two rodent hairs per cup.

This is because the chopped pods are fermented in great heaps for 3-8 days by the farmers and cannot be protected effectively from such animals.

They allow up to 10 mg of visible or hard animals excrements per pound. In cocoa powder, 75 insect parts on three tablespoon are permitted.

The increased temperatures during fermentation promote the growth of bacteria and fungi which produce tons of cancer – promoting aflatoxines. Poisonous chemicals like prussic acid, ethylenoxide and nerve gases are used to protect the plants while growing, and during fermentation and transport. These poisons cannot be removed. In the Middle Ages, chocolate was costly in Europe and was as aphrodisiac or sexual stimulant by decadent aristocrats.

Chocolate ruins the digestion, promotes skin impurities and is deemed by ayurvedic medicine as food in tama guna.

The oxatic acid in cocoa inhibits the absorption of calcium and leads to disturbance in the growth of children. Genetic disturbances, deformation of children, diabetes, agitation of the central nervous system, euphoric states of mind followed by states of fear and depression are all effects of the caffeine and theobromine contained in chocolate. Not so good for spiritual life.

Most of this was researched by Gaurachandra Prabhu in Wiesbaden.

Grains

Grains: Bread baked by non-devotees often contains contamination due to the impurity of the workers. (They also like to expectorate into the dough and worse). One leading article by the largest German news magazine, Stern, revealed that bread often contains almost exotic chemicals and preservatives, some of which disturb your hormones, promote depression, anger, and so on. One item frequently used in mass manufactured bread is cystine, which according to that article is derived from human hair. Some also add gypsum used normally in plaster. This just the visible side, and more importantly, there are the subtle impurities.

From Nikhilananda Prabhu