Food
National cuisine on the road
The first thing to remember when traveling is the rules of hygiene. Therefore, when choosing an institution offering national cuisine, be guided by how clean it is.
Begin acquaintance with national cuisine with products and dishes as close as possible to what you eat all the time. The main products in all kitchens are almost the same. They may vary in appearance, but have the same chemical composition.
Another thing when it comes to adding fats and spices. Your digestive system may not be ready for too fat, too sharp cuisine or unfamiliar spices.
Therefore, first try to choose low-fat dishes, so as not to burden the liver and pancreas. Ask not to add a lot of spices. Try to try the sauce - and then decide whether to add it to the dish. But even if all seasonings like, for the first time avoid their oversupply.
Do not eat immediately the entire portion of the products that you see in your plate for the first time. First try a small piece to eliminate the allergic reaction.
This is the most serious danger of unfamiliar food: a large amount of allergen entering the body, can cause serious consequences. That is why be sure to take antihistamines for the trip.
Mediterranean Kitchen
One of the most popular cuisines now is Mediterranean. The main difference of the Mediterranean diet - a large selection of seafood rich in nutrients. And first of all - iodine, which is lacking in the modern Russian.
However, in the Mediterranean cuisine are widely used side dishes of pasta and many other dishes of flour - pizza and various types of bread. If you are focusing on weight control, try not to get carried away.
It requires attention and the use of a large amount of useful vegetable, mainly olive oil. But its excess strongly loads the liver, pancreas and gall bladder.
Limit the amount of oil, calculating your daily intake of fat with a calculator of nutrient requirements. It is very easy to check how much fat comes from even very healthy vegetable oils. One tablespoon of oil is 20–25 pure fat.
And, nevertheless, in its assimilation, Mediterranean cuisine is lighter than Central Asian and Caucasian.
Caucasian and Central Asian cuisine
These cuisines also differ in the use of large amounts of fat in dishes. However, animal fats dominate there - mostly fatty meats.
The digestive system of not every person is able to cope with such a load as an abundance of protein and fat at the same time. For many, this leads to abdominal pain and gas.
An important rule of Central Asian and Caucasian cuisine, which is often neglected both here and abroad: only hot drinks should be on the table.
Animal fat has a high melting point. If you drink hot hot food with a cold drink, the fat will harden in the esophagus, and it will be very difficult to digest, creating an extra load on the liver.
In addition, it is important that there was not a salad on the table, seasoned with butter or a fat sauce, but a simple vegetable cut: there is enough fat in the food.
Japanese food
There are many healthy foods in Japanese cuisine. This is rice itself, and seafood rich in Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids, iodine and selenium.
However, if possible, choose dishes made from heat-treated products. Because you can not always be sure where this raw fish is caught, how and how much it was stored and transported. It is because of raw fish that food poisoning and parasitic infections most often occur.
In addition, fish protein is much easier absorbed in a thermally processed form than in raw. And in any standard set of Japanese cuisine you can always find heat-treated dishes - for example, with smoked eel, boiled shrimp and many others.
If you still can not refuse raw fish, carefully approach the selection of institutions in which you are going to eat, and choose only proven institutions with a good reputation.
The most important
If you try dishes of local cuisine on a trip - do not eat right away and be careful about unfamiliar foods and spices. After all, even the Mediterranean cuisine can give a surprise in the form of excess fat and fast carbohydrates.