10 Food Secrets Behind The Long Lives Of

Japanese People
 Why does the Japanese live longer?

What is the Japanese diet ?

 The distinctive customs of the Japanese people :

• Eating slowly • Eat on small plates • The tea drinker

You must eat breakfast Eating consciously
soyabeans
• Eating rice instead of bread • Less desserts • Including seaweed in the
diet
 Unlike other oriental
cuisines, the Japanese
style of cooking
doesn’t rely on heavy
sauces, fiery spices or
complex cooking
methods, much like
their food. Their
method of cooking is
also simple and
involves more natural
and fermented
ingredients.
1-Musu( Cooking in
steam)

Popularly known as one pot

cooking, this is another secret
why Japanese food is super
healthy. This traditional way of
cooking involves adding all
ingredients to a pot and
cooking it over moderate to
high flame so that a lot of
steam is created to cook the
food inside out.
2-Yaku:
This is also the oldest form of cooking
in Japan, wherein food is directly
marinated and exposed to heat, this
gives a smoky touch to the food. Yaku
includes delicacies prepared by cooking
the food on an open fire or grill,
especially used to make meat, fish or
seafood.
3-Niru:

t is basically a cooking method, which

uses low to medium heat to cook the
food in water. Following this method
of cooking helps in cooking the food
inside out, lower flame helps in better
cooking and retaining of flavours as
compared to aggressive methods like
boiling or exposing to excess heat.
4-Ageru:

The most loved cooking secret

is Ageru, which means deep
frying. The cooking secret is
different from regular deep frying,
which involves excessive oil
absorption. In this form of
cooking, the batter is chosen
mindfully along with ensuring a
proper temperature of oil, which
helps in cooking and efficient
frying in a matter of minutes.
These fried dishes are often
paired with healthy and
fermented dipping sauce, which
makes the whole meal super
healthy.