Is Ethiopian food good for you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s generally healthier than like American fast food or takeout Chinese.

Lentils are really good for you.

Lentils have extremely high amounts of lectins, toxins that bind to your digestive tract and cause inflammatory bowel disease and leaky gut and prevent absorption of nutrients. Excessive lectin intake causes diarrhea and vomiting….. no thanks!

I have no idea if lentils do or do not have high levels of toxins. But once you say leaky gut, it's game over. That's like Dr and Daphne Oz nutrition.

Yeah…this PP is repeating pseudoscience

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s generally healthier than like American fast food or takeout Chinese.

Lentils are really good for you.

Lentils have extremely high amounts of lectins, toxins that bind to your digestive tract and cause inflammatory bowel disease and leaky gut and prevent absorption of nutrients. Excessive lectin intake causes diarrhea and vomiting….. no thanks!

Such a shame that so many idiots are running around chewing on ... uncooked lentils?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s generally healthier than like American fast food or takeout Chinese.

Lentils are really good for you.

Lentils have extremely high amounts of lectins, toxins that bind to your digestive tract and cause inflammatory bowel disease and leaky gut and prevent absorption of nutrients. Excessive lectin intake causes diarrhea and vomiting….. no thanks!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/concerned-about-inflammation-these-foods-may-help/2017/10/31/bf9215b6-b9b2-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html

Although many anti-inflammatory diets claim that whole grains and pulses — beans, peas and lentils — increase inflammation, research shows otherwise. Pulses are high in fiber and magnesium, and magnesium has been shown to help reduce inflammation.

[Anonymous]

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/anti-nutrients/lectins/

These theories have fueled the profitable anti-lectin movement, spawning bestselling books and enzyme supplements to prevent lectin activity in the body. However, there is very limited research in humans on the amount of active lectins consumed in the diet and their long-term health effects. Anti-nutrients including lectins are most often studied in the diets of developing countries where malnutrition is prevalent, or where food variety is very limited and whole grains and legumes are important daily staples. [4,5]

[Anonymous]

It's good for my mental health because it's delicious.

[Anonymous]

It depends. Ethiopians use niter kibbeh which is a clarified butter for many of the vegetarian dishes, so they are not vegan. The beef tibs are usually swimming in a pool of grease.

[Anonymous]

Gives me diarrhea every time. I can tolerate other spicy foods. I used to think it was teff-related. Then, I tried cooking it at home with no contact with injera. It was a bit less explosive digestively, but only a bit. There’s something else that’s the culprit. Maybe a pepper? Or the lentils?

[Anonymous]

I’ve only had it twice and both times it made my stomach hurt. I thought the food tasted ok at best.

[Anonymous]

if you make it yourself, it's pretty healthy. Restaurants likely add more butter and salt. As takeout goes, it's likely healthier than pizza or fried food.

[Anonymous]

I like the veggie dishes but don't order often. My faces are the potato, carrot and cabbage, the greens, and the spicy red lentils, I also love the tomato jalapeño salad. These are such simple dishes I think they are healthy. Teff is very healthy. Indian vegetarian.

What neutral oil do people rec over canola?
Their butter is basically ghee. Fattening but also has has nutrients.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:if you make it yourself, it's pretty healthy. Restaurants likely add more butter and salt. As takeout goes, it's likely healthier than pizza or fried food.

+1 as takeout it's usually very oily. But that's bc it's restaurant food, not a ding against that cuisine itself.

A lot of the veg dishes look like the ingredients would be pretty healthy. But probably complicated to make at home!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It depends. Ethiopians use niter kibbeh which is a clarified butter for many of the vegetarian dishes, so they are not vegan. The beef tibs are usually swimming in a pool of grease.

Not correct, those are mostly vegan.
Mostly they are fasting food they have to be vegan.

[Anonymous]

If you order vegetarian sampler with teff injera will be the healthiest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the veggie dishes but don't order often. My faces are the potato, carrot and cabbage, the greens, and the spicy red lentils, I also love the tomato jalapeño salad. These are such simple dishes I think they are healthy. Teff is very healthy. Indian vegetarian.

What neutral oil do people rec over canola?
Their butter is basically ghee. Fattening but also has has nutrients.

Avocado oil buy it at Costco.

[Anonymous]

Another idea is to buy the teff injera from a market and make your own vegetarian dishes.