Ethnic Foods
A research organization, The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, in its guidelines to reduce obesity advocated consuming different ethnic foods to give you a taste delicacy while calculating calories and fat. Many ethnic cuisines are there which are low in fat, low in calorie.
So, if you are a healthy food freak and still looking for different choices, go for a taste ride with ethnic foods.
Many a countries all over the world offer different kinds of their own ethnic food. There are differences in taste, constituents, nutritional value, preparation time etc. Most popular among the ethnic foods are Chinese dishes, French, Italian, German, English, Indian, Ancient Roman, Greek, Mexican, Thai and dishes of the Middle East.
Benefits of taking ethnic foods
Highly palatable, easy to prepare, good to taste.
Balanced mixture of all the nutrients.
Risks
People with hyperacidity should avoid spicy foods.
Suggestions
One should be quite sure when giving order to a totally different kind of ethnic food to his regular taste. In good restaurants, you will find a small description about the constituents and methods of preparing the food in its menu card. Please check it and be sure you are not ordering anything that is a taboo to you or your society.
Recommended daily allowance
As per your choice. Just remember the total amount of calorie needs to a healthy adult is 2600-2800 kcal a day.
Food in category Ethnic Foods, ordered alphabetically
Acorn stew (apache)Agave, cooked (southwest)
Agave, dried (southwest)
Agave, raw (southwest)
Agutuk, fish with shortening (alaskan ice cream) (alaska native)
Agutuk, fish/berry with seal oil (alaskan ice cream) (alaska native)
Agutuk, meat-caribou (alaskan ice cream) (alaska native)
Ascidians (tunughnak) (alaska native)
Bear, polar, meat, raw (alaska native)
Blackberries, wild, raw (alaska native)
Blueberries, wild, frozen (alaska native)
Blueberries, wild, raw (alaska native)
Bread, kneel down (navajo)
Buffalo, free range, top round steak, cooked (shoshone bannock)
Buffalo, free range, top round steak, raw (shoshone bannock)
Caribou, bone marrow, raw (alaska native)
Caribou, eye, raw (alaska native)
Caribou, hind quarter meat, raw (alaska native)
Caribou, liver, raw (alaska native)
Caribou, rump meat, partially dried (alaska native)
Caribou, shoulder meat, dried (alaska native)
Caribou, tongue, raw (alaska native)
Chilchen (red berry beverage) (navajo)
Chiton, leathery, gumboots (alaska native)
Chokecherries, raw, pitted (shoshone bannock)
Cloudberries, raw (alaska native)
Cockles (alaska native)
Corn, dried (navajo)
Corn, dried, yellow, yankton sioux reservation, sd - cy013er (plains)
Corn, white, steamed (navajo)
Corned beef and potatoes in tortilla (apache)
Cornmeal, blue (navajo)
Cornmeal, white (navajo)
Cornmeal, yellow (navajo)
Cranberries, wild, bush, raw (alaska native)
Cranberry, low bush or lingenberry, raw (alaska native)
Deer (venison), sitka, raw (alaska native)
Elk, free range, ground, cooked patties (shoshone bannock)
Elk, free range, ground, raw (shoshone bannock)
Elk, free range, roast, eye of round, cooked (shoshone bannock)
Elk, free range, roast, eye of round, raw (shoshone bannock)
Fireweed, young leaves, raw (alaska native)
Fish, blackfish, whole (alaska native)
Fish, devilfish, meat (alaska native)
Fish, halibut, cooked, with skin (alaska native)
Fish, halibut, raw, with skin (alaska native)
Fish, herring eggs on giant kelp, pacific (alaska native)
Fish, herring eggs, pacific, dry (alaska native)
Fish, herring eggs, pacific, plain (alaska native)
Fish, herring, pacific, flesh, air-dried, packed in oil (alaska native)
Fish, lingcod, liver (alaska native)
Fish, lingcod, meat, raw (alaska native)
Fish, pike, northern, liver (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, chum, dried (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, chum, raw (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, coho (silver), raw (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, king (chinook), raw (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, king, chinook, kippered, canned (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, king, chinook, liver (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, king, chinook, smoked and canned (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, king, chinook, smoked, brined (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, king, with skin, kippered, (alaska native) - cy040cj
Fish, salmon, red (sockeye), smoked (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, red, (sockeye), canned, smoked (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, red, (sockeye), kippered (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, red, canned (alaska native) - duplicate, do not use
Fish, salmon, red, canned, bones removed (alaska native)
Fish, salmon, tipnuk, fermented (alaska native)
Fish, sheefish, dried (alaska native)
Fish, whitefish, broad, head, eyes, cheeks and soft bones (alaska native)
Fish, whitefish, broad, liver (alaska native)
Fish, whitefish, dried (alaska native)
Fish, whitefish, eggs (alaska native)
Fish, whitefish, mixed species, raw (alaska native)
Frybread, made with lard (apache)
Frybread, made with lard (navajo)
Huckleberries, raw (alaska native)
Mashu roots, raw (alaska native)
Melon, banana (navajo)
Moose, liver, braised (alaska native)
Moose, meat, raw (alaska native)
Mush, blue corn with ash (navajo)
Mutton, cooked, roasted (navajo)
Octopus (alaska native)
Oil, bearded seal (oogruk) (alaska native)
Oil, beluga, whale (alaska native)
Oil, spotted seal (alaska native)
Oil, walrus (alaska native)
Oil, whale, bowhead (alaska native)
Oopah, whole animal (alaska native)
Owl, horned, meat (alaska native)
Rhubarb, wild, leaves (alaska native)
Salmonberries, raw (alaska native)
Sea cucumber, yane (alaska native)
Seal, bearded (oogruk), meat, dried (alaska native)
Seal, bearded (oogruk), meat, dried, in oil (alaska native)
Seal, bearded (oogruk), meat, low quadrant, raw (alaska native)
Seal, bearded (oogruk), meat, partially dried (alaska native)
Seal, bearded (oogruk), meat, raw (alaska native)
Seal, ringed, (alaska native)
Seal, ringed, meat (alaska native)
Smelt, dried (alaska native)
Soup, fish, homemade (alaska native)
Sourdock, young leaves (alaska native)
Squash, indian, cooked, boiled (navajo)
Squash, indian, raw (navajo)
Squirrel, ground, meat (alaska native)
Steelhead trout, boiled, canned (alaska native)
Steelhead trout, dried, flesh (shoshone bannock)
Stew, dumpling with mutton (navajo)
Stew, hominy with mutton (navajo)
Stew, moose (alaska native)
Stew, mutton, corn, squash (navajo)
Stew, steamed corn (navajo)
Stew/soup, caribou (alaska native)
Tamales (navajo)
Tea, tundra, herb and laborador combination (alaska native)
Tennis bread, plain (apache)
Tortilla, includes plain and from mutton sandwich (navajo)
Walrus, liver, raw (alaska native)
Walrus, meat and subcutaneous fat raw (alaska native)
Walrus, meat, dried (alaska native)
Walrus, meat, raw (alaska native)
Whale, beluga, eyes (alaska native)
Whale, beluga, flipper, raw (alaska native)
Whale, beluga, liver, raw (alaska native)
Whale, beluga, meat, dried (alaska native)
Whale, beluga, meat, raw (alaska native)
Whale, bowhead, skin and subcutaneous fat (muktuk) (alaska native)
Whale, bowhead, subcutaneous fat (blubber) (alaska native)
Willow, leaves in oil (alaska native)
Willow, young leaves, chopped (alaska native)