what type of sushi are good for your health, or japanese food in general?
Hi What type of sushi/sashimi are good for your health, e.g. I know salmon roll is good due to the omega 3 fatty acid, anything else?
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Try Sukiyaki as it has variety of vegetables and also have Tofu as it is also good for you..
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The Japanese people have the longest lifespans on earth. Must be SOMETHING good about the food!
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not philadelphia rolls
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Most sushi is good for you, except for the "new" inventions that are not Japanese, like the California rolls loaded with mayo or stuff with greasy sauces and the such.
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All traditional Japanese food are good for your health As you can see below, each meal vegetables, meat (during lunch) or seafood (often during dinner and breakfast), egg, milk. It is a well balance and healthy diet. A traditional Japanese diet are as fellow Breakfast A traditional Japanese breakfast consists of steamed rice, miso soup, and various side dishes such as tsukemono pickles, steam vegetables, tamagoyaki and natto. Main dishes are broiled/grilled fish, sometime it will replace by omelets or other western dishes. Lunch Popular Japanese lunch dishes are rice bowls and various noodles. For example, beef bowls, soba noodles, ramen noodles, and udon noodles are popular. Most student, even workers bring bento (lunch boxes) to school or work. During lunch time, student will compare to see who got the best bento. Homemade bento is a way to show how much they care about the person they made for. In high school, its almost a competition almond girls to see who can made the best one, they will also made a extra one for their "love one" But no matter what, bento will always include starch, meat, veg, juice/milk. Most school don't have soda machine, pop are pretty much off limit. For working adult, they will ether bring bento (some might purchase from the store), or go out for lunch, most of the time are Donburi (rice bowl), Ramen, or lunch set. Dinner Dinner is the main meal in a day. The basic consists of steamed rice, soup, and various side dishes such as vegetable, tamago. Main dishes are not limit to Japanese but it could be from Italian, Chinese, French and American. There is no such thing as dessert in Japan, Japanese eat "sweet" as snack through out the day, item such as cakes, ice cream, crapes, rice craker. As for sushi and sashimi healthy -- yes here is a breakdown on commond sushi, Calories (count are base on standard size sushi) Japanese Name -- English Name -- Calories/pc -- Rich in content Aji -- Horse mackerel -- 52.1 -- EPA Akagai -- Red clam -- 39.0 -- Taurine, Iron Amaebi -- Sweet shrimp -- 35.8 -- Taurine Anago -- Conger eel -- 61.9 -- Vitamin A Awabi -- Abalone -- 35.9 -- Taurine, Iron Buri -- Adult Yellowtail -- 60.4 -- Taurine, DHA Hamachi -- Yellowtail -- 58.8 -- Vitamins Hotategai -- Giant scallop -- 44.7 -- Taurine Ika -- Squid -- 38.7 -- Taurine Ikura -- Salmon roe -- 52.9 -- Calcium, Iron Kani -- Crab -- 44.9 -- Taurine, Calcium Katsuo -- Bonito -- 45.9 -- Taurine, Vitamin E, Iron Kohada -- Gizzard shad -- 51.9 -- Calcium, Iron, EPA Maguro (Akami) -- Tuna (Non-fatty) -- 44.9 -- Iron, EPA, DHA Maguro (Chuutoro) -- Tuna (Semi-fatty) -- 57.1 -- Iron, EPA, DHA Mirugai -- Geoduck -- 37.7 -- Taurine, Minerals Saba -- Mackerel -- 59.2 -- Taurine, EPA, DHA, Vitamin B2 Sake -- Salmon -- 59.9 -- Vitamin B/D Suzuki -- Sea bass -- 39.0 -- Vitamin D Tai / Madai -- Red sea bream / Red snapper -- 43.4 -- Taurine Tako -- Octopus -- 37.4 -- Taurine Uni -- Sea urchin -- 43.4 -- Vitamin A EPA and DHA are sourse of omega 3 fatty acid Taurine show beneficial for adult human blood pressure and possibly, the alleviation of other cardiovascular ailments. In addition, it has been shown to be effective in removing fatty liver deposits, preventing liver disease, and reducing cirrhosis. for more detail Japanese Link: http://www.fseibun.com/gy/ English tranlation link: http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=ja&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fseibun.com%2Fgy%2F&sl=ja&tl=en Any other way to look at it is by campare it with fast food info from McDonald's web Double Cheeseburger -- 440 Calories Quarter Pounder with Cheese -- 510 Calories Big Mac -- 540 Calories French Fries (Medium) - 380 Calories average person lunch @ fast food Double cheese burger + Medium Fries ~~= 820 Calories lunch @ sushi restaurant mix sushi set avg 45 kcal / pc 10 pieces / meal ~~= 450 Calories 12 pieces/meal ~~= 540 Calories even worst case if you only order Anago @ 61.9 kcal/pc 10 pieces / meal ~~= 619 Calories 12 pieces/meal ~~= 743 Calories it is still better than a bouble cheese burger and fried.
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most japanese food are healthy
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