I think it is healthy. I am a vegetarian and eat it often. It is like anything else though -- you'll get different results at different restaurants, so just read reviews, try things, and see what place resonates with you. My current favorite is Elfegne.

A meal made with ghee or butter and carbs can be healthy, so to each her own philosophy. To single out Ethiopian food as among the less healthy cuisines, I beg to differ.

Anonymous wrote:If you eat Ethiopian food prepared in your friend’s home that is probably fine. Any restaurant food will by definition be loaded with salt and fat. The priority is taste.

Ethiopian restaurant food, just to be clear - we’re not talking homemade, are not much better than Chinese takeout.. maybe a just a smidge. Especially the vegetarian platters are laden with fat. There’s hidden butter in the lentil stews, creamy chickpeas, cooked collar greens and green beans (Fossolia). And of course ton of carbs from Injera bread.

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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!

Oh good to know. Now I can stop forcing myself to eat them. Why didn’t my cardiologist mention this when she told me to eat a Mediterranean diet?

Well what does your cardiologist know. She's in thrall to Big Med School. Not PP here, though. PP does her own research.

No idea what's with these answers: Yes, great takeout food. The stews should not be sitting in grease (at least vegetarian ones) like at a Chinese restaurant. lentils, veggies, injera are great, I say add to your rotation.

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

I love Ethiopian food but I find it’s really easy to overdo it in the bread. I think because of the sour aspect to it, it seems to give me a stomach ache if I eat too much of it, so I try to skimp a little on the bread.

Look at the sodium levels.

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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!

Oh good to know. Now I can stop forcing myself to eat them. Why didn’t my cardiologist mention this when she told me to eat a Mediterranean diet?

Well what does your cardiologist know. She's in thrall to Big Med School. Not PP here, though. PP does her own research.

If you eat Ethiopian food prepared in your friend’s home that is probably fine. Any restaurant food will by definition be loaded with salt and fat. The priority is taste.

I guess it would depend on how often you eat it. Most take-out food that I've eaten contains much more oil and salt than any similar meal I'd cook at home. If you eat take-out once a week, it's probably ok.