Italy surpassed Spain as the world's healthiest country according to the newly released Bloomberg 2020 Healthiest Countries Index, which ranks 182 economies around the world based on factors that promote overall health. Italy jumped to the top of the rankings from fourth in the survey published in 2015. One of the most important items of the healthy national index is eating habits, let's take a look at italian families eating three meals a day, what they love to eat, and why they have become the healthiest country in the world.
1. Breakfast
There is a saying in Italy: a good day can be seen from the morning. For Italians, breakfast is very simple, a bread, a cup of milk or a cup of coffee is often enough, but the bread is made by them in a variety of shapes and tastes, only you can not think of, there is nothing they did not do, if you want to try Italian specialties, you can try the Italian croissant bun. Of course, it has to be handmade and fresh.
Italian family breakfast will definitely drink coffee, Italians drink coffee is also a rule, only pure espresso espresso black coffee can be called coffee, with milk and sugar can only be called coffee drink. And only had coffee with milk for breakfast. It is said that the founder of Starbucks drank espresso in Italy that year and came up with the idea of opening a coffee shop. On September 6, 2018, Starbucks finally arrived in Italy to open a store.
2. Lunch
Compared with the dark cuisine of Northern Europe and the traditions of Eastern Europe, the cuisine of Southern Europe is the best in the heart of Europe. Although the world's three major cuisines are: China, France, Turkey, but the French food will be greasy, after all, mostly rely on butter, compared to Italy, which relies on spices and olive oil to taste is also the most easily accepted by people around the world.
Pizza is indispensable to Italian families, Italians are serious about pizza, and even the Neapolitan Pizza Standards Association, and even applied to the United Nations for the "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity", they stipulate the raw materials: the use of No. 0 or No. 00 wheat flour, fresh tomato homemade ketchup, wood-burning oven. In addition to these basic conditions, tomatoes, olive oil and cheese are preferably certified by the Italian "DOP" and the product certification of the limited appellation to ensure the high quality of the raw materials.
Lunch generally family also love to eat pasta, lasagna is one of them, lasagna is an exaggeration, a few large as handkerchiefs folded up, between each skin put Boloni meat sauce, Parmesan cheese, and then sprinkled on the top of a large amount of cheese, baked. The thousand-sided layers that come out of the oven and serve look inconspicuous, but when cut down with one knife, the thick layers are full of rich content, cheese and meat sauce are slowly squeezed out of the dough, sprinkled with a little chili crushed, and one bite down, full of happiness! No wonder Garfield likes to eat lasagna the most, and eats so fat.
There are many kinds of pasta, using different raw materials: wheat flour, rice flour, bean flour, etc.; made into various shapes: short, round, straight spiral; dried and fresh; added vegetable juice or seafood sauce to make different colors; methods such as pasta eaten separately with various sauces, there are also salads made of cooked pasta; and there are methods similar to soup noodles. In various parts of Italy there are also their own names and varieties of pasta. If you want to figure out everything about pasta, write a thick dictionary.
Italian sausage is the local people's favorite meat products, no matter what the cooking method is very good, even after drying can be eaten raw, and ordinary German sausages are completely different, like Bologna sausage, Italian sausage is to put minced meat instead of puree into the taste in the large intestine made, the taste can be from not spicy to very spicy, depending on personal preference.
Ham is also one of the favorite delicacies of Italians, and in several regions of Parma, the "king of ham", Curatello culatello is also produced. The farmstead that produces Kuratro sits on the Po River and is shrouded in fog. Fog, or indeed the climate of the Po Valley, is the key factor in the proper maturation of this curatero. Its production process has been passed down from generation to generation, containing the story of the land, the traditions of the people, and the characteristics of the terroir.
After lunch, the locals will also eat some desserts, and some love to eat ice cream. Italian desserts are famous all over the world, from the well-known tiramisu to pudding, from the most common ice cream to the most special chocolate salami.
Ice cream wasn't first invented by the Italians, but they've really perfected it over the centuries. The history of Italian gelato dates back to the Renaissance, where real gelato is handmade by artisans every day, and unlike regular gelato, it contains less fat, less air, and a richer natural flavor.
3. Dinner
Italian families also love to eat fondue for dinner, because of the border with Switzerland and France, the eating habits are largely influenced by these two countries, the most common is that a large amount of cheese is usually added to the diet. Fondue Fonda is the most traditional food here. The pot is filled with rich Italian Fontaine cheese, but unlike Swiss fondue, locals add butter and eggs, plus a little truffle for a better flavor.
Every variety of cheese in Italy has strict controls, such as Mozzarella's most authentic is Mozzarella di bufala campana, which means that it is produced in a specific region, if only Mozzarella di bufala is written, one is fake or two is illegal.
There are two kinds of truffles in Italy, one is a rare and more aromatic white truffle, and the other is a black truffle with a weaker aroma and a slightly higher blackness. Truffle tasting is best found in autumn, in the local cuisine of Umbria, Tuscany and Piedmont. At any other time of the year, truffles in dishes are frozen or otherwise preservative, and their quality is not comparable to that of fresh in autumn.
Beef is also a favorite delicacy of Italians, and there are slow-fire beef stew dishes in many parts of the world, and the Italian stewed calf leg meat is one of the delicacies. Made from veal shanks simmered over low heat with white wine, broth and vegetables. The traditional recipe, born around the end of the 19th century in an old shop near Milan, was made not with tomatoes, but with gremolata, a fresh seasoning made from lemon peel, garlic and parsley. The modern version uses tomatoes, carrots, onions and celery.
The Italian roast pork dish is also one of the delicacies for dinner, generally made with the belly of the pork, which is added with salmon, steak, garlic, onions, peppers rolled up in the meat, and then baked in the oven for seven hours, the fat layer is on the outside, so the roasted pork is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. If someone really patiently reads it, they will find that in addition to a few dishes, it is basically Italian home cooking, Italian food is not as much as China, not as exquisite as France, but it is this home-cooked dish that makes Italian cuisine the top three in the world.
Why is Italy named the healthiest country in the world?
According to Bloomberg's 2020 Index of Healthiest Countries, the top 10 countries are: Spain, Italy, Iceland, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Australia, Singapore, Norway, and Israel. The index rates countries on the basis of indicators such as average life expectancy, taking into account dietary habits, health risks such as smoking and obesity, and environmental factors, including access to clean water and sanitation.
Italy has the highest life expectancy among EU countries, after Japan and Switzerland, according to the United Nations. By 2040, italy's average life expectancy is expected to reach nearly 86 years, surpassing That of Japan and Switzerland. The researchers say dietary habits may provide clues to health levels in Italy, as eating a Mediterranean diet plus extra-pure olive oil or nuts has a lower incidence of major cardiovascular events than those who regularly eat a low-fat diet.
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