or as i say "nat to those beans"
This week's bizarre food is natto or fermented soybeans. Natto is a real hit or miss with its consumers some people absolutely love it and can it eat for breakfast every single day, while others like myself run for the hills when we get the slightest hint that someone is eating natto.
Yahhhhhh doesn't that just look so good >.< it looks like super spider web that has caught a bunch of bugs in my view.
When people ask me about natto my first thoughts are oh monk food? ... actually my first thoughts are the smell of the beans that just hits me like a brick wall. With this bizarre food i can say i have tried it, my friend had invited me over for lunch one day and I knew he was Japanese but i didn't know we were going to have an all monk/veggie lunch, i have nothing against vegetables because in my view they're the sources of great flavors! But that lunch i pretty much ate rice and norri which is just dried seaweed :D RICE BALLs were my saving grace that meal.
Looking around online i found a little fun fact about natto:
"Some manufacturers produce an odorless or low-odor nattō. The split opinion about its appearance and taste might be compared to vegemite in Australia and New Zealand, blue cheese in France, lutefisk in Norway and Sweden, Mämmi in Finland and Marmite in the UK. Even in Japan, nattō is more popular in some areas than in others. Nattō is known to be popular in the eastern Kantō region (Tokyo), but less popular in Kansai (Osaka, Kobe). About 236,000 tons of nattō are consumed in Japan each year."
I have nothing against natto or he people that eat it but please don't bring it over to my house and put it in my microwave it will STINK UP THE HOUSE!!! One of my childhood friend's younger sister did that and i just remembering her mom complaining about the smell and how it just lingered for days. Honestly though if you can get over the strong smell of natto its really not that bad tasting. And its very healthy for you its source of vitamin K and because its a bean its packing with protein!
"Nattō also contains large amounts of Vitamin K, which is involved in the formation of calcium-binding groups in proteins, assisting the formation of bone, and preventing osteoporosis. Vitamin K1 is found naturally in seaweed, liver and some vegetables, while vitamin K2 is found in fermented food products such as cheese and miso. Nattō has very large amounts of vitamin K2, approximately 870 micrograms per 100 grams of nattō."
And here's a little video on natto...excuse the voices they can be a bit annoying -___-
Enjoy your fermented soy beans :D just DONT microwave em D;
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