Breakfast is a very important meal. A good breakfast fuels you up and gets you ready for the day. Without breakfast, people can get irritable, restless, and tired. Breakfast helps you break overnight fast and gives you energy to start a new day. This meal has proved to be linked to many health benefits. The research result from testing 17 healthy adults on three days, once when they skipped breakfast, once when they had three regular meals and once when they skipped dinner, show that glucose concentrations and markers of inflammation and insulin resistance were higher after lunch on breakfast-skipping days, the researcher concluded that skipping breakfast could potentially raise the risk for obesity and diabetes.
Breakfast is different in each country. It depends on the culture of eating and raw materials in the country. Today, We will give you some examples of popular breakfasts in three countries include Thailand, China and European countries.
1. Thai breakfast
In Thai, you can eat the same foods for breakfast as you might eat for lunch or for dinner. breakfast is known as ahaan chow (อาหารเช้า), meaning morning food.
The popular thai breakfast foods include jauk(Thai rice porridge), pa-tong-goh(Thai deep-fried donuts) and nam tao-hu(hot soy drink).
- Jauk is rice porridge made of broken rice. It 's served with either minced pork cooked in pork stock or chicken meat cooked in chicken stock. The two parts are served together in a bowl. (ใส่รูป)
- Pa-tong-goh is Thai