Did you know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day?
Siega-Riz, Popkin and Carson (1998) defined breakfast as any food, beverages or both consumed anytime between 5am and 10am and not the first meal you had when you wake up, especially if you wake up at 12pm.
Kah!
Children who eat breakfast perform better at school. They have better cognition and concentration. Eating breakfast is like recharging your brain and body for the day.
Here's the tricky part. What to eat for breakfast?
You have to eat the right kind of food to sustain your hunger until lunch time. Foods like sugary cereals, pastries or other high sugar foods caused sugar/energy spike and leave you feeling drained and hungry before mid-day.
Chose to eat fruits, complex carbs or protein instead.
Eggs are good. It can be scrambled, boiled or made into omelette.
Let's see what are the common breakfast around the world. Shall we?
1. Argentina
2. Bolivia
13. Morocco
How about Malaysian breakfast?
1. Nasi Lemak
5. Rice porridge
What's your usual breakfast?
Ref: Trends in breakfast consumption for children in the United States from 1965-1991.
A M Siega-Riz, B M Popkin, and T Carson (1998), www.imgur.com, www.buzzfeed.com.
Siega-Riz, Popkin and Carson (1998) defined breakfast as any food, beverages or both consumed anytime between 5am and 10am and not the first meal you had when you wake up, especially if you wake up at 12pm.
Kah!
Children who eat breakfast perform better at school. They have better cognition and concentration. Eating breakfast is like recharging your brain and body for the day.
Here's the tricky part. What to eat for breakfast?
You have to eat the right kind of food to sustain your hunger until lunch time. Foods like sugary cereals, pastries or other high sugar foods caused sugar/energy spike and leave you feeling drained and hungry before mid-day.
Chose to eat fruits, complex carbs or protein instead.
Eggs are good. It can be scrambled, boiled or made into omelette.
Let's see what are the common breakfast around the world. Shall we?
1. Argentina
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| "facturas" are similar to Danish pastries or crossaints and and are often filled with dulce de leche, quince paste, or custard. |
2. Bolivia
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| Saltenas, similar to empanadas, are usually filled with vegetables or meat and are sweetened with a little sugar. Macam karipap pun ada kan. |
3. Brazil
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| Lots of meats, cheeses, and bread. Sounds good to me. |
4. China
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| A lot like lunch and dinner. It's usually noodles, rice, sticky coated chicken and fried veggies. |
5. Cuba
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| Thick, buttery Cuban bread dunked in sweetened coffee (with a little salt) sounds pretty damn good for breakfast. |
6. Egypt
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| The Foul Madamas is usually consists of lemon, garlic, fava beans, and chickpeas and is often topped with tahini sauce, hard boiled egg, some veggies, and little olive oil and cayenne pepper. |
7. English
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| A breakfast full of bacon, eggs, sausage, grilled tomato, bread, mushrooms, and black pudding. YUMMMMM! |
8. France
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| Le croissant, plain or with crushed almonds, butter, chocolate or cream., and coffee of course. I love croissant! |
9. Germany
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| Wursts, local cheeses and freshly baked bread, all washed back with a strong coffee. |
10. Ghana
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| Waakye is is basically rice cooked with beans and spices. |
11. Japan
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| Tofu,soak in soya sauce taken along with fish and rice. One of the healthier breakfast. |
12. Mexico
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| Lots of spicy things going on in this one. This breakfast from Manzanillo consists of beef tips, beans, chilaquiles, and cheese. |
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| Different breads with some chutney, jam, cheese or butter. They have a really delicious crumpet-style bread which they make in huge slabs for you to tear a bit off, and a semolina pancake bread called Baghir. |
14. Pakistan
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| Aloo Paratha is an Indian unleavened flatbread. The dough contains ghee and the bread is usually stuffed with vegetables. It’s best eaten with butter, chutney or some other spicy sauce. It’s not uncommon to roll it up and dip it in your tea. |
15. Poland
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| Scrambled eggs, sausage, and potato pancakes. |
16. Portugal
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| Stuffed croissant with coffee |
17. Thailand
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| This pork porridge breakfast from Thailand consists of sliced pork heart, stomach silvers, blood pudding, beansprouts, Chinese doughnuts, and pork intestine stuffed with peppery pork mince. |
18. Turkey
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| Usually consists of a few varieties of cheese, butter, olives, eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, jam, honey, and spicy meat. |
19. America
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| Pancakes with syrup, butter, bacon and blueberries. This or cereals. |
How about Malaysian breakfast?
1. Nasi Lemak
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| Who doesn't love nasi lemak? |
2. Roti Canai
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| All time favourite |
3. Kolo Mee
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| Sarawakians staple diet. |
4. Karipap and other traditional kueh
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| Enjoyed with a cup of hot tea |
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| One of my favourites |
6. Cream crackers with tea or coffee
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| Everyone is familiar with this i guess |
What's your usual breakfast?
Ref: Trends in breakfast consumption for children in the United States from 1965-1991.
A M Siega-Riz, B M Popkin, and T Carson (1998), www.imgur.com, www.buzzfeed.com.
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