Questions? & Answers!

Why Do Japanese People Sprinkle Salt When Eating Watermelon?

Sweet or salty, if such strong tastes exists at the same time, one could enhance another tastes subjective feeling, which is referred to the contrast effect of tastes. Sprinkling some salt before eating watermelon, the mouth and tongue firstly taste the salt, then the sweet, and the sweet taste will be stronger, this is the typical contrast of tasates.

Sour and salty, such flavors exist at the same time, one has the effect of inhibition of another, make it no longer so strong, it is called the inhibition effect of taste. It is often used in the Japanese diet, Sushi rice is cooked in vinegar, it has the fragrance of vinegar. Of course, there is the sour taste of vinegar. So the sushi rice is often mixed with a little salt to inhibit the acid flavor.

Is It OK For Snails Living Without A Shell?

Snail carries a shell from birth, with growth, the snails body exocrine calcium, its "house" will also become bigger in size. If we carefully observe the snail shell, we will find the trace of the growth.

Snail's shell is the life for it, at any time when danger comes, it can shrink to hide inside. Only part of the snail body can come out from inside the shell, and the organs, such as liver, kidney, always hide inside the shell to be protected...So, the snail shell is needed, unless the snail itself doesn't want to live.

Is It Really Healthy To Drink More Grains Porridge ?

First of all, don't eat too much healthy food, control your food intake. If replace the rice porridge and rice with grains porridge, it will be OK.

Second, the diet should be diversified, without quantity, there will be no quality. Many people's understanding of diversity is the variety of food, the more the better, which will be effective in complementation, coarse grain porridge is the typical food.

Third, in providing nutrition, food each have its expertise. Different foods have different nutrients. When eating them, you should have pertinence, vitamins and minerals can be taken in by eating the right amount of fruits and vegetables, there is no need to eat grain porridge to complement.

Finally, the equilibrium is a period instead of a meal.On compensating nutrition, you should think about in a long-term trend, adhere to a healthy diet for a long period, rather than rely on a bowl of corse grain porridge to solve all the problems.

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