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Who can say where food aversions come from? My worst one is turmeric, the element that gives yellow curry its, well, yellow-ness (confession: I’m shuddering just thinking about it). There’s no good reason why I don’t care for the look, smell, or flavor of it. I never had a bad experience at the homes of my childhood friends Sanjey, Pavneet, Deepa, or Priya. But I just don’t like it.
Which is a shame, and not only because it makes me the jerk who says “anyplace but Indian” when picking a restaurant. It’s also a bummer because turmeric is one of the most healthful substances around. So here are 5 reasons I wish I liked it:
1. The curcumin in turmeric (the thing that gives it its orange-yellow color) may have powerful anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties (see this article).
2. Curcuminoids are also plant-based antioxidants that protect the body from nasty free radicals and the damage they wreak.
3. Research studies (like this one) are investigating whether a turmeric-rich diet helps prevent heart disease.
4. Traditional Indian medicine (Ayurveda) has used it for centuries for everything from healing cuts and burns to strengthening teeth, and several Asian countries use it regularly for soothing stomachaches, improving liver health, and more (click for Wikipedia article).
5. Heidi Swanson, my all-time fave foodie blogger, just posted this Cashew Curry dish, and I know it’d be delicious….if only I could be in the same room with it.
posted February 4, 2009 at 6:12 pm
I feel the same way and slowly I’m starting to eat it. Your tastes change over the years. Try it again! You might be surprised.
posted February 5, 2009 at 11:24 am
Tumeric also makes a gorgeous natural dye!
http://tinychoices.com/2009/01/20/diy-natural-dyeing/
But, maybe not for you…
posted February 5, 2009 at 1:58 pm
it slashes colon polyps too, Johns Hopkins, small study, 60% reduction in number of colon polyps in only six months in FPS patients, familial colon polyps, they had been through the mill. It also reduced the size of the remaining polyps by half, again, in only six months, in other studies dissolves plaques in brain disease.
posted February 22, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Comming from a Persian bakground, I had to eat Turmeric every day as child. My mother used Turmeric in almost everything when cooking. I grew up in Sweden, but my family kept the food tradition from Persia. As I started my own life seperately from family, my use of Turmeric decreased, and so did my health, but what I want to tell you is that I started to hear about this magical seasoning , and I truly was surprised to know that people in Persia had used Turmeric in centeries, and they must have known the reason for the use of it, but I never knew why!!!
You can guess that I went back to using Turmeric in my cooking every day the way my mother did!
God bless her, she is 70 years old, but she is healthier than many women in her age!
I wish I had listen to my mom, when telling me ” do not forget where you are from “!!!
Thanks to her today I am almost 52 years old, and I have no worries about my health, besides I look way yunger that I really am!!!
Use Turmeric moderately in your food every day! It will save you from many health dangers!
Sweden
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