{"id":7125,"date":"2008-10-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/10\/16\/sri-lanka-will-use-banana-leaves-as-commercial-food-wrappers\/"},"modified":"2008-10-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T12:00:00","slug":"sri-lanka-will-use-banana-leaves-as-commercial-food-wrappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2008\/10\/16\/sri-lanka-will-use-banana-leaves-as-commercial-food-wrappers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Will Use Banana Leaves As Commercial Food Wrappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/015200810141540.htm\">www.hinduonnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, October 14, 2008: In an eco-friendly measure against the environmental hazard caused by polythene wrappers, the Sri Lanka government has evolved a technique to prepare food wrappers from banana leaves.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Sri Lankan Agriculture Ministry, &#8220;a technique has been<br \/>perfected to produce cured banana leaves that can be kept more than<br \/>one month under refrigerated condition without any changes in color<br \/>or quality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People throughout south Asia have wrapped food in banana leaves since ancient times.  The leaves provide a distinct fragrance and help to keep foods fresh.<\/p>\n<p>Polyethylene sheets are convenient, but these take over a year to start degradation and can contain harmful chemicals. <\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hinduonnet.com COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, October 14, 2008: In an eco-friendly measure against the environmental hazard caused by polythene wrappers, the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}