Outbreak of parasitic disease in Japan
Some time ago, according to media reports, Due to the pursuit of "raw food culture", Japan has successively seen a number of cases of raw fish parasite infection, but what is incomprehensible is that it is known that eating raw fish will infect parasites, but the Japanese people still choose to continue to eat raw. Subsequently, the news spread to the mainland and quickly caused heated discussion among the vast number of netizens.
Many netizens said: Can eating raw fish really eat the so-called "fresh" taste? Some netizens also said that Japan's enthusiasm for "raw food culture" is itself a pathology. But what the hell is going on? Why don't Japanese people like to eat cooked food? Pay attention to the earth king, the first time to learn the latest information.
Raw food culture originated in China?
In fact, the answer to these questions has long been hidden in Japan's food culture, as we all know that Japan is a country deeply influenced by Chinese culture, even eating habits are no exception, Japan's earliest food culture also originated in China, until more than 1,000 years ago in the "Heian Period", Japan began to gradually decompose the food culture learned from China after learning the cultural essence of Chinese "benevolence, righteousness, etiquette and etiquette".
With the emergence of "daily chemical" diet and "raw food culture", the food culture of the Yamato nation was slowly independent, but Japan is only an island country after all, and China is incomparable with the vast land, so that after departing from Chinese eating habits, the Japanese found that the island country did not produce oil at all, which means that the Japanese can not cook every meal with oil like Chinese, which is one of the reasons for the emergence of Japan's "raw food culture".
The reason why Japan "eats raw"
Coupled with the fact that Japan is surrounded by the sea and rich in fishery resources, we can find from today's Japanese diet that Japanese food rarely uses oil to cook dishes, most of which are light or raw food, but Japan, which has a history of raw food for thousands of years, why do there suddenly appear many cases of parasitic infections?
The explanation of Japanese experts is that the cause of the parasitic disease infection is caused by sashimi, which involves the fish of this incident, including mackerel, horse mackerel, bonito, etc. Considering that June to early August is the fattest season for mackerel, The major fishing boats in Japan have long been waiting for it, planning to send the fat mackerel to the sushi restaurant at the fastest speed, but many diners have severe abdominal pain, vomiting, food poisoning and other phenomena after eating, and only after the inspection is that they are infected with isised nematode.
Similar events
And similar incidents have not been the first time, as early as 1990, Japan had a large-scale outbreak of isosqualiosis, infecting about 16,000 people, what is this concept?
In the same period, in addition to Japan, the number of people infected with xenodermasis in the world was only more than 600, and the parasitic cases in Japan, a small island country, were close to three times the world's total, which is obviously unreasonable, but even so, why are Japanese people still fanatically pursuing "raw food culture"? Does the ethereal "umami" taste really exist?
What exactly is the ethereal "umami"?
On this issue is actually not difficult to explain, in fact, we often mention the "umami" in our daily life has long been refined by experts, the so-called "umami" is actually sodium glutamate, which is what we commonly use, MSG has developed to today has become an indispensable condiment in cooking, but why is Japan still pursuing the so-called "umami"?
Some scholars believe that the umami taste pursued by the Japanese may be different from the umami we often say, adding MSG to the dish can play a role in improving freshness and increasing flavor, but the freshness pursued by the Japanese is a fanaticism for raw meat, similar to the psychology of primitive humans eating raw meat, in addition to sashimi, Japan is also popular to eat raw horse meat, raw eat cuttlefish eggs, raw chicken offal, raw pig offal, etc., although we can not judge whether this eating habit is right or wrong, but compared to eating cooked food, the risk of eating raw meat is obviously higher.
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In addition, although there are similar foods in the mainland, such as wet raw pickling, Foshan fish raw, etc., before making these foods, they need to be fully sterilized and disinfected, rather than raw, in the end, the earth jun still cannot understand Japan's raw food culture.
In the end, what do you think of the fact that Japan eats raw fish to infect the parasite? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.