Love gujiya? 3 reasons they may be unhealthy and make you bloated!

1.Sweet ingredients

Gujiya is a dumpling filled with sweet ingredients such as nuts, dried fruits, khoya and saffron. But, not everytime are these ingredients as good they propose to be.
2.Why gujiyas can be harmful

Gujiyas are the flavour of this season. Not only do they mark the beginning of the festival of colours, but also bring with them the happiness of savouring on Holi specialities. While bingeing on these holi favourites, such as gujiya, we often mistake nutritious with delicious and later face the consequences. Gujiya is an ancient Holi preparation, however, has been fiddled with countless number of times now.
3.Reason number 

Firstly, market-bought gujiya is packed with trans fats. Not only are they deep fried again and again to freshen them up but are also fried in cheap quality oils to save cost. Vanaspati or old oils are used to fry them and are sold in massive quantities during holi.

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