The Food - Healthy Juice and Fresh Dates For Breaking

The Food - Dates are never missed a fasting dish. It was a sweet sticky suited to be enjoyed during fasting. In addition to eating fresh, tasty dates also made ​​a cake mix and pudding. With a bit of a mixture of other ingredients, date palm juice is also delicious made​​.

Fruit with a dark color and texture have always been a bit harsh in the month of Ramadan. In addition to direct eaten, dates are often made in a cake mix, and also made ​​into a date palm juice. Sweet, tasty and refreshing of course, is perfect for breaking the fast.

Date palm juice can be made from fresh dates that have been seeded. If you want to taste the fresh, put some dates and orange juice in a blender bowl. Add some ice cubes and process until smooth. Be the juice is fresh and sweet.

In addition, dates are also often made smoothies with added raisins and yogurt. There is also the added banana, mango, strawberry too. Because it is already naturally sweet, no need to add sugar or sweetener added again.

Not only tasty and fresh, but the dates are also highly nutritious. Dates are rich in vitamin C, which was instrumental in maintaining the immune system. In addition, date palm juice is also suitable for people with dengue fever, because it can increase levels of platelets. Palm juice is also effective to overcome diarrhea, flu, and sore throat.

The Food - Hwajeon, Pretty Legit's Interest

The Food - This cake does look like a flower. Glutinous rice flour dough topped with a beautiful variety of color petals. Cakes giinseng country is always present in any traditional events include picnic now.

Hwajeon is a small pancake batter made ​​from glutinous rice flour, sugar and water. This cake is commonly known by the name of interest or kkot darim cake in Korean language. Its texture is soft with the scent of fragrant flowers make this cake a lot of people liked. Azaleas and chrysanthemums flower petals most often used as a topping.

This dish is usually eaten at the moment hwajeon nori, a traditional celebration since the Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392). Samjinnal spring festival, the women have a picnic and bring the rice flour and a heavy skillet. They pick flowers Azaleas and instantly create a picnic hwajeon time.

Azaleas to eat called Jindallae. Kinds of beautiful purple flowers that are a characteristic of hwajeon. Traditionally eaten with jindallae hwachae or traditional drink made ​​from honey and azaleas.

In the autumn of Korean society makes different versions hwajeon chrysantemum flowers and leaves. This dish is named woof hwajeon and served with gukhwaju (daribunga made ​​rice wine).

To make the pancakes are also very easy. Materials needed glutinous rice flour, salt, hot water, vegetable oil, azaleas can be replaced or rosella flowers and honey. Mix the glutinous rice flour with a little salt and stir well. Add hot water, a spoonful after spoonful and make a smooth batter or dough samapai not stick in hand

Take the dough and form small round object and flatten, diameter 5 cm, ½ ​​cm thick. Place on a nonstick skillet. Cook over low heat until the dough is translucent. Stayed behind and were azaleas and cook until done. This cake is delicious eaten warm with syrup or honey.

The Food - Young Coconut Pudding Strawberry Sauce

The Food - It may also occasionally break their fast with a special dish. Like a soft pudding with coconut stuffing it. Enjoyed cold with a splash of sour fresh strawberry sauce. Wow, delicious!

ingredients:
1 packet of jelly white powder
400 ml coconut milk
100 g sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
red dye
4 egg whites
200 g of coconut meat, finely crushed, drained
Starwberry sauce:
200 g fresh strawberries, cut into pieces
75 g sugar
1 tablespoon lemon juice

How to make:

     Boil coconut milk with agar-agar, sugar and vanilla to a boil.
     Give a little red dye, stir well and remove from heat.
     Beat the egg whites until stiff.
     Enter the hot gelatin mixture while stirring until blended.
     Enter a young coconut meat and stir well.
     Pour into baking dish or serving glasses.
     Allow to cool and freeze.
     Store in refrigerator until cold.
     Meanwhile, prepare Strawberry Sauce.
     Put all ingredients in a blender bowl.
     Process until smooth.
     Strain the sauce and cook until boiling.
     Remove and let cool.

For 6 people

The Food - Color Chips Can Prevent Excessive Eating

The Food - This snack is a tasty, crunchy. Make the audience hooked and it is difficult to stop chewing. However, one study found that the color of potato chips can prevent a lot of people eat.

The team of researchers from Cornell University have found that potato chips are colored red or brown, will visually reduce the amount of consumption in these chips.

The experiments were conducted by two groups of students as much as 98 people. As they watch the video in the classroom, researchers from Cornell Food and Brand Lab to give a jar of potato chips. Most of the chips supplied are red.

Even without conscious there are chips in the red container. But they were able to reduce their consumption by 50% compared to their peers.

"Normally people will put good food in front of them. In the present study shows that some people use a visual indication to tell when to stop eating. "Says Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.

He also stated, this study needs to be redone with a large scale and diverse groups. To be known clearly what their cause decreased appetite.

The Food - Enriched breads Folic Acid Help Prevent Fetal Defects

The Food - Folic acid is a substance that is essential in the process of pregnancy. Adequate intake of folic acid to ensure optimal fetal development and birth of a baby is perfect. The scientists also agree that the bread can be enriched with folic acid to prevent spina bifida.

Spina bifida is the most common conditions of a group of disorders known as neural tube defects (neural tube defects / NTD). Neural tube is part of the fetus that would develop into the brain and spinal cord.

Damage occurs when the neural tube fails to close properly during the early weeks of pregnancy. Some symptoms include physical disabilities, developmental delays, and impaired bowel and bladder control.

According to the Daily Mail, this condition is 5.000 attacked children in the UK each year. However, in Chile, the birth of a child with symptoms of neural tube defects is reduced by half after the local health minister requiring folic acid added to flour.

"To help prevent birth defects, we recommend that pregnant women who want to mengasup daily folic acid supplement of 400 mg," said a spokesman for the UK health departments.

As a country that makes the bread as a staple food, of the United Kingdom and Chile could benefit from the bread fortified with folic acid or vitamin B9. When in Indonesia, maybe rice or rice fortified with folic acid?