Are Street Juices and Roadside Drinks Safe in Summer? A Gut Health Warning for Chandigarh — Dr. Sandeep Pal
Are Street Juices and Roadside Drinks Safe in Summer ? A Gut Health Warning for Chandigarh Walk down any busy street in Chandigarh during May or June — Sector 17, Sector 22, or the chaotic stretch near the bus stand — and you will find them everywhere: juice stalls, sugarcane pressers, aam panna vendors, and chilled lassi counters. They are colourful, refreshing, and very, very tempting when the temperature is pushing 44°C. But here is what those stalls are not showing you: the unwashed cutting board, the ice block chipped from a source you will never know, the fruit that has been sitting out since morning, and the hands that have handled hundreds of glasses without a single wash in between. As a gastroenterologist in Sector 33 D, Chandigarh, I treat dozens of patients every summer who come in with severe stomach cramps, vomiting, and persistent diarrhoea — and when we trace it back, a roadside juice or cold drink is almost always part of the story. This blog is not about scarin...
