Chinese traditional food and foreign fast food that higher nutrition?

The advantages of traditional Chinese food:1 Steamed bread

Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, the southern barbarians in the southern part of the state of Shu, the lord of the Southern barbarian cave, always kept attacking and harassing, Zhuge Liang personally led the troops to conquer Meng.

The area around Lushui was very sparsely populated, and the miasma was very heavy and the Lushui was poisonous. Zhuge Liang's men came up with a superstitious idea: to kill some of the "southern barbarian" captives and use their heads to sacrifice to the river god of Lushui. Zhuge Liang, of course, can not agree to kill the "southern barbarians" prisoners, but in order to encourage morale, he came up with a way: with the army to bring the flour and into the pasta mud, kneaded into the shape of the human head steamed, as a sacrifice instead of the "barbarians" head to sacrifice to the river god. Since then, this kind of noodle has been passed down and spread to the north. But called "brute head" is too scary, people used the word "steamed bread" to replace the word "brute", writing "steamed bread". "Over time, steamed bread has become the staple food of northerners.

2 Crystal Cake

Crystal cake is a famous point of Shaanxi Weinan, characterized by the golden surface of the silver gang, the skin off the crisp, cool tongue seepage teeth, sweet and moist mouth.

Legend has it that Kou Zhun, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, was a clean and fair official and won the hearts of the people. Kou Jun one year from the Kyoto Bianliang back to his hometown of Weinan countryside to visit relatives, coinciding with the fiftieth birthday, the townspeople sent birthday peach, birthday noodles, birthday plaque congratulations, Kou Jun set up a birthday banquet to treat. After three rounds of wine, suddenly the men came to an exquisite tung wood box, Kou Zhun opened a look, which is loaded with 50 crystal bright as crystal stone like snacks.

On top of the snacks, there is also a red paper, neatly written with a poem: "Gong has a crystal eye, but also a crystal heart, can distinguish between loyalty and treachery, whiteness is not stained with dust." The inscription is Weibei old man. Later, Kou Zhun's home cook also copied to make this snack, Kou Zhun according to its characteristics to give it a nice name, called "crystal cake".

3 rock candy

According to legend, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, there is a girl named Fusang, a large sugar workshop in Neijiang, Sichuan Province, advocating the Yaxian family's maiden.

On one occasion, she took advantage of Zhang Yaxian was not in, scooped up a bowl of syrup is ready to drink when Zhang Yaxian came, Fusang hastily poured the syrup into the lard cans, it will be hidden into the woodpile, and in the top put some chaff to cover up. After a few days, when Fusang held out the lard can, the can is full of many crystal things, cracked into the mouth, crunchy and pure sweetness, the flavor is better than sugar. Fusang told this strange phenomenon, many people as the method, because the sugar produced by the shape of ice, taste like honey, people will call it ice sugar.

Some of the "foreign fast food" oil and the traditional Chinese use of ordinary vegetable oil is different, because the use of hydrogenated oil, that is, the vegetable oil hydrogenated oil production. Harvard University Public **** Health School of Nutrition, Director of the Department of Nutrition, Professor Willett pointed out in 1991: the natural vegetable oils hydrogenated production of hydrogenated oils are hazardous to health! Because hydrogenated oils contain some naturally non-existent trans fatty acids, trans fatty acids will affect the human endocrine system, a health hazard. "Epidemiologic studies on the relationship between intake of hydrogenated fats and the chances of developing heart disease and diabetes have shown that hydrogenated fats are worse than saturated fats," notes Willett.

Foreign fast food and carcinogens - propylene toxin. on April 24, 2002, the Swedish National Safety Administration published the latest research results, found that french fries, hamburgers, pancakes, grilled pork and so on contain a large amount of acrylamide, due to the acrylamide damage to the central nervous system, can induce benign or malignant tumors,. So some scholars think this explains the high incidence of tumors in western countries. The Drug and Food Administration of the United States announced on March 24, 2004 the results of the examination of 750 kinds of food, which once again confirmed that the highest level of such carcinogenic substances is found in French fries, fried potato chips, popcorn and fried chicken. Home cooking is in better condition, and fresh vegetables are the safest. Europe, America and China are not the same, home kitchens have ovens, is a high-temperature cooking; China's traditional meals are low-temperature cooking, our rice, noodles, steamed buns are made with water as a medium, will not be more than 100 degrees Celsius, much lower than baking. Stir fry dishes completed in a short period of time, the combination of high and low temperature cooking methods, not only beneficial to maintain the nutrients without loss, but also to meet the need for surface sterilization, reduce the oxidation of fats and oils. So the traditional cooking methods of the Chinese people are very safe.