Jamaican Food Is Healthier Than American Food Research Paper

Toni McLean

Language Arts

Mrs. Pettit

6 June 2015

Jamaican Food Is Healthier Then American Food.

Jamaican Meals Are Fresher And Healthier Compare To American Processed Foods. Jamaican use different types of meet that’s healthy like, shrimp, crabs, lobster, clam, and fish. Also we use oxtails, grilled pork because it burned off the fat and we also grill chicken breasts. American us all different types of food too, as in processed food as in burger and fries, hot dogs, tacos and Chinese food. American eats chips, Mac-n cheese basically unhealthy food. Not to forget Wendy’s. Jamaican cuisine is much healthier like our famous jerk chicken pasta. What are us in this dish is. Green pepper, yellow pepper, frilled

The way the jerk chicken looks so tender and juices. American food on the other hand don’t looks so good like there sloppy Joe. Most people like sloppy Joe. Sloppy Joe doesn’t look good at all. Jamaicans don’t us lots of oil. They grill most of their food. Like seafood, chicken, etc… Americans on the other hand us lots of oil. Basically in all their foods. American fried chicken dish looks so good but its unhealthy at the same time. They use oil for ever thing like... There homemade chicken sandwich, and there fried eggs, and onion rings. Those are the unhealthy food for you. Because that’s just cooked in oil. Another Jamaican healthy recipe is the curried shrimp and mango soup. What they use to make this dish.. is, ( 1tsp extra virgin olive oil, I onion (large), chopped, 2 stalk celery sliced) four cloves garlic, 1 tbsp curry powder, 1 tsp dried thyme, 2 cups broth (seafood or stock or clam juice). Another American unhealthy recipe is the onions rings. What they use in this dish. 1 large onion. Cut into ¼ inch slices, 1 ¼ cups of all purpose flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 egg, I cup milk, or as needed, ¾ cup dry bread crumbs, seasoned salt to taste, 1 quart oil for frying, or as needed. Processed foods have been too popular in

All the Tran fats and other additives they use to make the food that eat, how it looks and to make it tastes good. Comparing. Americans load their plates with mashed potatoes instead of. (Steam your broccoli until its bright green and tender but still chewy). American open to a lot of take out foods of different culture, ration which makes American fat. American eats a lot the creamy and fried food. Fruits grow extremely well in Jamaica’s tropical climate. And mangoes, pineapples, papaya, bananas, guava, coconuts, ackee, and plantains are just a few of the fruits eaten fresh or used in dessert. Ackee is the national fruits of Jamaica. The most healthy and most loved food in Jamaica is seafood. Seafood is the most loved in island. With the most popular Jamaican seafood recipe being fish. Lobster, shrimps. These have been prepared in many different ways. Such as grilled Many people cook their seafood differently. Like some of us use peppers, onions, thyme, garlic, coconut milk, and chopped mango. Some people jumbo shrimps instead of the little shrimp. Some people cook there seafood with rice and some make there’s with pasta. American\s on the other hand use ALL