Top 10 health benefits of Asian food
Contrary to popular belief, Asian cuisine is not exclusively about Chinese food and is not limited to rice. It is indeed extremely rich and varied.
Asian cuisine encompasses a whole continent: India, Japan, Vietnam, China, Pakistan, Lebanon, and many other countries. A cuisine is rich in flavors and ingredients that not only allows you to travel for a meal but also offers many health benefits.
1. A multi-benefit staple
A staple food for about half of the world's population, rice has been cultivated for millennia in Asia. It seems that 23% of all calories consumed in the world come from this cereal.
According to several epidemiological studies, the consumption of whole grains such as rice would reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and some cancers. It is the fibers, antioxidants, vitamins, and minerals contained in the rice that would bring these benefits.
2. The healing and preventive virtues of spices
Curry, turmeric, ginger and other spices found in Asian cuisine help to enhance the dishes and bring them perfume.
The taste, the smell, and even the sight are solicited, for the greatest pleasure of our taste buds. Our senses are thus developed and our body benefits from the many healing virtues of Asian spices that facilitate digestion, reduce inflammation and so on.
3. A healthy cooking method
Among the various cooking of Asian cuisine, we find the wok. This one is particularly adapted to the vegetables since it makes it possible to preserve their crunch, their flavor but especially their vitamins.
Cooked in very little fat and for a very short time, over high heat, the food and keep all their nutritional benefits.
4. Interesting proteins
The combination of cereals with legumes found in Asian food provides an interesting protein intake.
It reduces the amount of protein of animal origin and offers a real source of energy. Also, legumes contain not only essential minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus) but do not contain saturated fatty acids.
5. The cuisine of the centenarians
Japanese cuisine is renowned for being particularly balanced and dietary. Is not it said of the island of Okinawa that it is "the island of centenarians"?
With its famous sushi, the Japanese diet gives pride of place to the products of the sea (seaweed, fish). They are an important source of omega 3, essential fatty acids that contribute to the proper functioning of the cardiovascular and cerebral systems.
6. An antioxidant drink
Tea is the ultimate Asian drink. It has indeed properties both taste and thirst-quenching. Dried and then infused in boiling water, tea leaves have digestive and antioxidant properties.
There are different kinds of tea (green, black, white, Oolong, Rooibos ...) but it is to the green tea that one grants the greatest antioxidant power which can be up to four times higher than that of the vitamin C.
7. Complete and balanced dishes
Ramen, Bo Bun, Thai Pad and other Asian dishes have the advantage of offering taste properties but are also of nutritional interest.
They are indeed complete dishes that combine various nutrients (proteins, fats, and carbohydrates) while remaining dietary with reasonable caloric intake.
8. Use of vegetable oil
One of the other cooking modes of Asian cooking is frying. Foods such as shrimp fritters or spring rolls are thrown into boiling vegetable oil.
Although it is not recommended to eat fried food daily, cooking with vegetable oil is beneficial for your health. It is indeed rich in fatty acids essential to our nutritional balance. Also, the oil has the advantage of not being a source of cholesterol, unlike fats of animal origin.
9. A high fiber diet
Fruits and vegetables are present in Asian food. It offers a diet rich in raw vegetables.
These fibers help promote intestinal transit. They also have the particularity of reducing the speed of digestion and thus improve the feeling of satiety.
10. Gluten-free cooking!
More and more people are intolerant to gluten and must turn to a diet that does not contain wheat, barley or rye.
The interest of Asian cooking is obvious since it is based on rice, a cereal that does not contain gluten. Without being allergic, avoiding gluten consumption may be recommended for people with fragile intestines.
