When I went to New Zealand, I was research about difference between staple food of Japan and New Zealand. So, I will write about my research.1. Introduction
Staple food is the food that we eat mainly in our everyday life. In Japan, carbohydrates like rice are the common. For example, rice ball, sushi and curry rice. Japanese often eat many carbohydrates together. Do they do so in New Zealand as well? I researched about difference between the staple food and carbohydrates of New Zealand and Japan.
In Japan, most people eat rice every day, but they eat bakery goods too. Recently, young people eat breads every breakfast and lunch in Japan. What do they eat every day in New Zealand? Perhaps people in New Zealand eat baked breads every day too. What is the staple food and carbohydrates in New Zealand diets?
2. In Kumamoto
Japanese staple food is rice. Side dishes are made to match rice. For example, pickled ume, miso soup and fish are good with rice. Many people also like sushi which is made rise. A Japanese-style confectionery called rice cake covered with bean jam also exists in Japan. It is made of rice and it is popular among Japanese. And there are other many foods which are made of rice. For example, bread that is made from powder of rice is sold at supermarket lately.
Almost all Japanese people eat rice at breakfast, lunch and dinner in Japan. However, we eat bread and noodles as staple foods too. At the present day, although potato isn’t a staple food, some people eat potato as staple food with butter, cuttlefish and so on in Hokkaido. Even so, almost all people live on rice. That is to say, our staple food is carbohydrate.
The reason why rice has been our staple food is that it suits the Japanese climate. Rice is our main food and main source of life for Japanese, but it depends on the weather whether there is a large harvest of rice or not. Rice determines people’s life and fate in its hands.
However, rice was not our staple food from ancient times. Before rice farming started 2000 years ago, the staple food was millet. The millet was barnyard grass, barley and beans. Japan’s population was about 200,000 before rice farming started, but now, it is about 100,240,000.
Rice is a carbohydrate and has much nourishment. Rice also contains a lot of protein, calcium, magnesium, vitamins, dietary fiber and so on.
Finally, Japanese often eat the many carbohydrates together. For example, we put some potatoes in curry and put curry on the rice. Sometime, we also eat bread with pasta. Potato and rice are both carbohydrates. Bread and pasta are carbohydrates too. It is usual for us to eat some carbohydrates together at a time. However, it is different in New Zealand.
3. In NZ
People of New Zealand haven’t a notion of staple food, but they have a concept of main food. I sent out questionnaires to my host mother, her friend and my friend’s host family in New Zealand about their main food at breakfast, lunch and dinner about 15 people. According to the survey, their main food was potatoes and bread. Though cereal also popular in people of New Zealand, almost of New Zealander eat bread and potatoes every day. They also eat carbohydrates as their main food. It is same to Japanese about thing that we eat carbohydrate as staple food.
Potatoes contain much glucose and food value is high. We can cultivate potatoes and sweet in poor soil. Generally, the advantage of growing potatoes is that it is easier than growing grain and good efficiency. However, potatoes do not keep for a long time and they have to have protein as a side dish.
As for me, I ate bread every morning in my home in New Zealand, but we didn’t eat bread at dinner, because dinner is a big meal. Almost every day, we ate meat and potatoes at dinner, for example, beef and mashed potatoes or chicken and baked potatoes, and even lion meat! However, we didn’t eat carbohydrates together. For example, potatoes and rice or noodles and bread together, because according to my host mother “it is too much carbohydrate for me.”
My host mother often cooks mashed potatoes and baked potatoes of Kumara to me. It is a kind of potato and carbohydrate. I ate this as staple food in New Zealand. She taught me how to cook the baked Kumara. It is very easy. This is the recipe. (At first, cut the Kumara. Next, mix the Kumara with butter and soy sauce. And bake it in oven.) I made it when I got back to Japan. And my family said me “good”. Many people who live in New Zealand knows many recipes how to cook, because to make a lot of kind dishes with only one carbohydrate. (Though the main foods are potatoes and bread, they have a lot of recipe to enjoy much kind of dinners in New Zealand.) Kumara looks like sweet potato and it is Maori language. There are some Maori people in New Zealand. They learn fishing and they ate fish as staple food during 150 years. However, they couldn't’t eat other food, because the climate changed and it ruined plants and animals. And they made a field of Kumara and Taro. Then, they also eat potatoes and bread as staple food every day.
As to whether or not they eat carbohydrate together, the question about it was split right down the middle. The people who answered “I don’t eat them together” and “I often eat carbohydrate together” were about the some. One person who answered “I don’t eat it together” explained “because it is too much carbohydrate for me”. Another person who answered “I often eat carbohydrate together” explained “I eat bread and noodles” and “I eat potatoes and rice!” It is usual to eat carbohydrate together in Japan, but it was not usual in New Zealand.
4. Conclusion
From the above research, Japanese live on rice and we eat rice everyday. Our staple food is carbohydrates. In addition, we eat carbohydrate together at the some time. And it is usual for us. On the other hand, though people of New Zealand haven’t a notion of staple food, they eat mainly bread and potatoes. And my research said they are also carbohydrates. However, there are both people who eat carbohydrates together and people who don’t eat them together. In brief, it was split right down middle.
5. Bibliography
(Rice Wikipedia) from http://www.iy-place.com/kome-eiyou/
(encyclopedia; Wikipedia) from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/主食
(Q&A of Making rice Wikipedia) from http://agrin.jp/hp/q_and_a/shushoku.htm
Below question is question that I heard to my host family and friend’s host family.
1 What staple food do you eat at your breakfast, lunch and dinner?
2 Do you eat some carbohydrates together? yes→Q3 and no→Q4
3 What carbohydrates do you eat together?
Staple food is the food that we eat mainly in our everyday life. In Japan, carbohydrates like rice are the common. For example, rice ball, sushi and curry rice. Japanese often eat many carbohydrates together. Do they do so in New Zealand as well? I researched about difference between the staple food and carbohydrates of New Zealand and Japan.
In Japan, most people eat rice every day, but they eat bakery goods too. Recently, young people eat breads every breakfast and lunch in Japan. What do they eat every day in New Zealand? Perhaps people in New Zealand eat baked breads every day too. What is the staple food and carbohydrates in New Zealand diets?
2. In Kumamoto
Japanese staple food is rice. Side dishes are made to match rice. For example, pickled ume, miso soup and fish are good with rice. Many people also like sushi which is made rise. A Japanese-style confectionery called rice cake covered with bean jam also exists in Japan. It is made of rice and it is popular among Japanese. And there are other many foods which are made of rice. For example, bread that is made from powder of rice is sold at supermarket lately.
Almost all Japanese people eat rice at breakfast, lunch and dinner in Japan. However, we eat bread and noodles as staple foods too. At the present day, although potato isn’t a staple food, some people eat potato as staple food with butter, cuttlefish and so on in Hokkaido. Even so, almost all people live on rice. That is to say, our staple food is carbohydrate.
The reason why rice has been our staple food is that it suits the Japanese climate. Rice is our main food and main source of life for Japanese, but it depends on the weather whether there is a large harvest of rice or not. Rice determines people’s life and fate in its hands.
However, rice was not our staple food from ancient times. Before rice farming started 2000 years ago, the staple food was millet. The millet was barnyard grass, barley and beans. Japan’s population was about 200,000 before rice farming started, but now, it is about 100,240,000.
Rice is a carbohydrate and has much nourishment. Rice also contains a lot of protein, calcium, magnesium, vitamins, dietary fiber and so on.
Finally, Japanese often eat the many carbohydrates together. For example, we put some potatoes in curry and put curry on the rice. Sometime, we also eat bread with pasta. Potato and rice are both carbohydrates. Bread and pasta are carbohydrates too. It is usual for us to eat some carbohydrates together at a time. However, it is different in New Zealand.
3. In NZ
People of New Zealand haven’t a notion of staple food, but they have a concept of main food. I sent out questionnaires to my host mother, her friend and my friend’s host family in New Zealand about their main food at breakfast, lunch and dinner about 15 people. According to the survey, their main food was potatoes and bread. Though cereal also popular in people of New Zealand, almost of New Zealander eat bread and potatoes every day. They also eat carbohydrates as their main food. It is same to Japanese about thing that we eat carbohydrate as staple food.
Potatoes contain much glucose and food value is high. We can cultivate potatoes and sweet in poor soil. Generally, the advantage of growing potatoes is that it is easier than growing grain and good efficiency. However, potatoes do not keep for a long time and they have to have protein as a side dish.
As for me, I ate bread every morning in my home in New Zealand, but we didn’t eat bread at dinner, because dinner is a big meal. Almost every day, we ate meat and potatoes at dinner, for example, beef and mashed potatoes or chicken and baked potatoes, and even lion meat! However, we didn’t eat carbohydrates together. For example, potatoes and rice or noodles and bread together, because according to my host mother “it is too much carbohydrate for me.”
My host mother often cooks mashed potatoes and baked potatoes of Kumara to me. It is a kind of potato and carbohydrate. I ate this as staple food in New Zealand. She taught me how to cook the baked Kumara. It is very easy. This is the recipe. (At first, cut the Kumara. Next, mix the Kumara with butter and soy sauce. And bake it in oven.) I made it when I got back to Japan. And my family said me “good”. Many people who live in New Zealand knows many recipes how to cook, because to make a lot of kind dishes with only one carbohydrate. (Though the main foods are potatoes and bread, they have a lot of recipe to enjoy much kind of dinners in New Zealand.) Kumara looks like sweet potato and it is Maori language. There are some Maori people in New Zealand. They learn fishing and they ate fish as staple food during 150 years. However, they couldn't’t eat other food, because the climate changed and it ruined plants and animals. And they made a field of Kumara and Taro. Then, they also eat potatoes and bread as staple food every day.
As to whether or not they eat carbohydrate together, the question about it was split right down the middle. The people who answered “I don’t eat them together” and “I often eat carbohydrate together” were about the some. One person who answered “I don’t eat it together” explained “because it is too much carbohydrate for me”. Another person who answered “I often eat carbohydrate together” explained “I eat bread and noodles” and “I eat potatoes and rice!” It is usual to eat carbohydrate together in Japan, but it was not usual in New Zealand.
4. Conclusion
From the above research, Japanese live on rice and we eat rice everyday. Our staple food is carbohydrates. In addition, we eat carbohydrate together at the some time. And it is usual for us. On the other hand, though people of New Zealand haven’t a notion of staple food, they eat mainly bread and potatoes. And my research said they are also carbohydrates. However, there are both people who eat carbohydrates together and people who don’t eat them together. In brief, it was split right down middle.
5. Bibliography
(Rice Wikipedia) from http://www.iy-place.com/kome-eiyou/
(encyclopedia; Wikipedia) from http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/主食
(Q&A of Making rice Wikipedia) from http://agrin.jp/hp/q_and_a/shushoku.htm
Below question is question that I heard to my host family and friend’s host family.
1 What staple food do you eat at your breakfast, lunch and dinner?
2 Do you eat some carbohydrates together? yes→Q3 and no→Q4
3 What carbohydrates do you eat together?
Above picture is chicken, mashed potatoes, beans and tomato. It was very delicious!
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