Do you love eating carrot? Hmm, I shouldn’t not ask that. The question I should be asking is what do you know about the carrot you eat?

For a start we know bunnies like carrot because they are sweet, it comes in type and different varieties have its seasons. Really but we get to eat them all the time. Yes we do, and it is seasonal. Carrots are vegetable and like all vegetables it has a time when it is plant and harvested. Carrots are planted in early spring and are harvested at late spring and planted again in late summer.

Insect meal, The Next Alternative Food Source

Have you ever taken a fruit and as you were eating it you pulse to look at it and behold you see a maggot in it. What will your reaction be? Would you continue eating it or get very irritated and throw it away. I guess a lot of people will just simply throw it away. But the truth about it is that we eat insect without knowing that we do. While some are aware, but what can they do about it than just simply ignore it.

Insect You May Consider Eating

Insects are excellence choice of protein. It contain all the amino acids our body needs, the protein it contains is often higher than that of meat, pork, mutton, fish and chicken. They are excellence source of minerals, vitamins and polyunsaturated fats. They are also high in iron and zinc.

There are 1909 edible species of edible insects that man can eat as an alternative source of food. There is need to enlighten people that most of the food contain bugs in them. We try to remove the much we can but not completely. There are bugs in maize, beans, fruits, tubers and vegetable and we eat them consciously or unconsciously. Eating of insects has been an old long practise among people in Africa and Asia and has historically been consider part of a healthy diet.

Examples of bugs you could eat are:

Grasshopper

Ancient Grains for Modern Meal

Grains like corn, wheat, rice, barley, oat, millet and ancient grain all make up about 70% of food consumer in the world. The ancient grains are not as popular as the other gains mentioned earlier, but are making a comeback. You can add variety to your diet by including Ancient Grains.

Waste Not wanting Not the Current Food Trend

Waste not Want not is a global menu food trend propagated by restaurant in the US and in Europe and the world over. This trend tends to bring awareness about food wastage and what it does to our environment.

You will be totally amazed the amount of food in monetary value and in tonnes that is wasted annually.  According to national geographic, it reported 

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Delicious Rice Dishes

Is there any one who can say he or she has never eaten rice, or any of the types of rice eaten around the world?

 

Rice is the second most commercial and important staple grain food eaten the world over after maize. Rice is the seed of the mono cot plant Oryza sativa. Over fifty countries produce rice with China and India cultivating over 50%.

Eat Roasted Hemp Seed For your next Snack

I was surfing the net for my next post when I came across the roasted hemp seed that can be eaten as snack. Did you just read hemp seed? Yes hemp seed. 

Hemp seed is often times misunderstood, hemp seed comes from the same plant hemp cloth is made from. This seeds are edible and are enjoyed raw or roasted and has nutritional benefits, they are a great choice for vegetarian and for people who like high protein.

Tasty Italian Food You Should Eat

Italian foods are one of the world most talk about food. Is it really one of the best or is it just hyped? It is not hyped because millions of people go to Italian every year to satisfy their hunger.  Italian foods are very simple to prepare, and Italians use the best fresh ingredients they can find.

Here are some popular Italian foods that you should eat the next time you go to an Italian restaurant.

Prosciutto

American popular foods

American are special people with special way of life. They are famously known as the Yankees. There are a lot of things that people all around world like about the American. We like their sports like baseball, basketball and football among many, their music like hip pop, pop etc. their movies and food.

But how many knows what the American popular foods are?

Here is a little review of American popular food I bet you will find really tasty and delicious.

 Macaroni and cheese

Macaroni and cheese also called mac and cheese, macaroni pie, cheese macaroni.

 It has an English origin which is made with macaroni pasta and cheese, other ingredients like vegetable, meat and crumb bread.

Hot wings

Hot wing is popularly called buffalo wing or buffalo chicken wing. American eats a lot of chicken parts and the wing was not among their favorite until a restaurateur invented a new recipe and the hot wing became a boom.

The hot wing (wingette or drummette) is deep fried, coated in vinegar based cayenne pepper hot sauce and butter.

Lots of restaurant across the united State serve hot wing. There are different favors of chicken wings like the jerked and oriental favor.

Pepperoni pizza

Pepperoni is also known as pepperoni sausage, It is made with cured pork and beef mashed or it can be made from mixture of pork and beef.

Pepperoni is an Italian and American creation, its characteristics is fine grained, lightly smoking, and it is relatively soft. Ingredients like pepper, garlic, fennel, mustard beef are used in the production of pepperoni pizza.

Philly cheese steaks

Cheesesteak is also called Philadelphia, Philly cheesesteak, cheesesteak sandwich. It is a sandwich made with chipped steak that has been frozen and sliced really thin and cooked on grilled top.

 The cheese steak is made by combing frizzed beef, onions and cheese in a small loaf of bread.

Chesses steak is popular with American and has it origin in Philadelphia.  There are variations on the cheesesteak, there is the chicken cheesesteak, pizza steak and cheesesteak hoagie.

Hot dog

Hot dog usually spelled hotdogs are cured and cooked sausage hat consist of mainly pork, beef, chicken and turkey.

 Other ingredients include curing agent water, spices such as garlic salt sugar, ground mustard, nutmeg and white pepper.

The sausage was imported from Germany and popularized in the united State. Hot dog variants included corn dog dipped in corn batter and deep fried, beanie weenies chopped and mixed with baked beans

Hamburger

Acid Forming Food

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Lemons also known as citrus Limon lemons are oval in shape and have a yellow back peel. Lemon belong to the citrus family, it inner fruit is encased in segments.

The two main type of lemon are the Eureka and the Lisbon. There are some varieties of lemon that are sweet in favor. A notable example is the Meyer lemon.

History of lemon

Placenta Consumption Benefits

“Kim Kardashian declares she definitely  wants to eat her placenta”  source: daily mail reporter. How strange those that sound? It is strange but it is gradually becoming a trend with women who just delivered their babies all around the world. If you are reading this post the question is can you eat placenta?

Origin of placentophagia

Placentophagia is the art of eating placenta. Consumption of placenta is usually associated with nutritional belief, medicine and traditional belief. Culture that find eating of some or all part of the placenta are the Chinese, Hungarian, Italian, Vietnamese, Brazilian among others. Other cultures like some part of Africa and other culture around the world discard the placenta; some perform burial rites on it, while some bury it.

Mammals eat their placenta

 Humans are the only mammals that find eating placenta disgusting. Most mammals eat their placenta after giving birth to their young ones. Goats, Cows, Sheep, Cat etc.  Mum used to have goats back then and I have seen them eat it, they consume it in its raw form. Animals do this for a good reason and no one is talking about it.

Benefit of placenta

There are a lot of reasons why placenta is eaten and is encourage by ancient and modern cultures. Here are some reasons;

Medicinal purpose:

·     It boost milk production,

·     It cures infertility.

·       It is used as placenta encapsulation which helps in cure depression.

·      Balancing the hormones.

·     Reduces post natal bleeding.

·     Increase energy level.

Nutritional Purpose:

 Placenta is rich in vitamin B6, rich in protein and iron.
 

There is no doubt that placenta is highly medicinal and nutritional, disgusting or not people still eats it and more people will be convinced to try it. Would you encourage your sister, wife, friends and love one to eat placenta?

Source: bellybelly.com, christianitytoday.com,Wikipedia.   

  

4 Weird Drinks

There is no doubt that there are really strange things in this world. Strange things you must have seen and those you must have heard. When it comes to consumption,these strange stuff are weird indeed, but are to not weird to those that consumed them.

There are strange food eaten my man, and if there are strange food then it must be accompanied with strange drinks.

Here are some weird drinks you won’t want to try lol.

Liquid Smoking

This drink has fizzed out as quickly as it came. It is manufacture by Dutch manufacturer’s United Drink and Beauty Co -operation. It is popular with the Netherlands. It was created to help to help smokers beat the no smoking in public ban

Placenta Drink.

This drink is famous with the Japanese, Chinese, and Hungarian Vietnamese. It is believed that the placenta is very rich in nutrient and it helps the mother to recover after child birth and also helping with milk supply. It is a trend that is gaining popularity with women all around the world.   

Gau Jal (Cow Urine Drink)

The India Hindu Nationalist movement is working on making a drink from cow urine that will rival top like Pepsi and Coca cola drinks.

Lizard wine

Lizard wine is a Chinese drink that is prepared with Gecko and adding ginseng in a clay pot that is filled with fermented rice. It is left for 12months before is ready to drink.