Foreigners with the "brain" dinner is not up to you not surprised

Since ancient times, a Chinese eating plenty of "aroma", with particular emphasis on taste.

The ancients said: have no definite taste, palatable to Jane. In other words, the taste of food is not fixed, as long as delicious. According to a survey conducted this year, when eating usually priority elements, 47.8% chose the "taste", ranked second in the "nutrition" by 16 percentage points. Thus, increasing the public's taste, no hot not happy, feeling no smell, fried vegetables and vegetable is inseparable from a variety of spices ... In short, the tastes of the trend is more aromatic and spicy, salty and more fresh.

Nutrition sector there is a saying, "brain," foreigner, Chinese dinner with "mouth".

Japan, France, Spain, a healthy diet is based in trophic structure decided what, how we eat, we decided on the basis of taste. Lunch dishes varied, but basically is built around a "taste", rarely consider nutrition and health. This flavor of extreme pursuit, has quietly harm our health.

Cooked fried fried is the Chinese traditional cooking methods, including fried most Chinese features recipes, abroad are not that "fried" there is no suitable English translation.

Cooking requirements: Mong oil, there is a proverb that "hair": Cook fear, can control: Mong oil, is a craft. Because of this, it is oil, fried since no statement. Cooked fried fried out of vegetables delicious, but the cost of oil, and destroyed the vitamins and other nutrients.

Research Center of Tsinghua University media investigation lab, on Chinese diet condition according to a survey conducted by the Sichuan 51.2% turnout ranked unpopularity, the other is in turn Northeast cuisine, Hunan, Shandong cuisine and Japanese cuisine.

The survey also showed that a variety of tastes, like "spicy" most 40.5 percent; followed by "sweet" 28.4 percent; followed by "salty" 17.3%. A person participating in a survey of 2253 also show that 47.28% daily for at least a spicy dishes, 23% of people eat once in two days, 18.78% of people eat once a week. General Cook cooking salt "every hot will, spicy and salty" shadow. It is said that Yu is the mother of eight cuisines, most stressed with salt, food will be out of the pot, the master had spoiled when disciples branch, Chef learned with salt, also fell. However, the chef has now not so sophisticated, direct a salt in it, so the restaurant mostly very salty. Who recommended salt intake per person a day 6 grams, but research shows that some cities in China North of salt intake has reached 15 ~ 16 grams per person/day, some people even more than 20 g/day.

Previous food fresh by soup, "Opera cavity, Cook the soup", now with monosodium glutamate, chicken essence, ease the "clean water" variable, so the chicken soup for the many chefs became the chef of the "msg", chefs on average each dish you want to put 3 xiaoshao Msg.

Foreigners who have not used the monosodium glutamate, in the United States, was raised in the restaurant "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome", in fact, is a dish of monosodium glutamate put too much cause nausea and dizziness thirsty Diner, almost touching off a rejection of the turmoil in the restaurant.

The investigation revealed that the Chinese people of salt, sugar, monosodium glutamate, spice daily intake is well above the world average.

It can be said that the Chinese people's taste is undoubtedly the most weight in the world. In the global advocate of healthy eating environment, our eating habits is clearly contrary to the "."

Not only restaurants too, processed food.

Wholemeal stem to join a large number of oil, beverage to add flavor, sugar, numerous surveys have shown that consumers buy processed foods, the primary consideration is the taste, of course, to cater to the manufacturers.

This kind of "bad taste, light diet nutrition", so that more and more Chinese people into a lifestyle disease: excess calories, undernourished.

International Obesity Congress announced, many countries in the world than fat died of starvation, including China. Experts said the taste changes, you can give the body brings dozens of diseases. Eating too much salt can cause high blood pressure, heart disease, asthma, chronic kidney disease; eat greasy cause fatty liver disease, cancer, etc.; eat too sweet brings dental caries, diabetes; eat too hot can cause ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux ... Moreover, the taste of overweight brings health problems, but also may affect pregnancy or lactation mother and fetus, put some diseases passed on to the next generation. More studies show that people's taste is "inherited" the taste of overweight parents, children would not be against it.

Today, those who advocate diet regimen, and superstitions "food is capable of curing" is better than starting from the taste of lighter, smaller appetites, is the real health practices.

(Edit: Justin Lin, internships)