Roman Food Research Paper

Have you ever wondered about what people used to consume back in the time of the Romans? Or, have you ever thought about the average American’s diet and how unhealthy it is. Well, diet was very different back in those times. An example of this is that the Roman food was more healthy than food in the modern United States. Also drinks were more wine-based in Rome. Desserts in modern America are much less healthy in modern times. Consumption habits in present-day America are very different than in ancient Rome because of modern technology. Technology has changed the way we eat because it of its convenience, making us somewhat less active in cooking. A difference between Roman and modern consumption habits is the nutritional value. There was

The most common desserts in Rome were fruit platters and a small cake that was made with honey.Fruit is very healthy. Fruits are a source of necessary vitamins and minerals that we need to survive. For example, vitamin C, which helps your immune system. There are many other vitamins too in fruits. The cake is very healthy because it uses a natural sweetener. In ancient Rome, they had candies made from dried fruits, such as figs. Figs were very healthy. They had a lot of nutritional value. In modern times, our desserts are much less healthy. American desserts contain a lot of refined sugar. Many desserts have chocolate, which contain a lot of refined sugar.Once again, the high concentrations of refined sugar provide a higher risk of diabetes. And of course refined sugar is not good for you anyways… Also, very little amounts of fruit are contained in modern desserts. There was still some desserts with fruit, but not that many. Even if desserts had fruit, most of the time there nutritional value would be drowned out by the amount of refined sugar. Once again, fruits are very healthy. They have many different

This is because of modern technology being able to refine sugar and factories being able to cook food quickly.Roman food and desserts were much healthier than modern desserts. But yet Roman drinks were almost as unhealthy as American drinks. We look at the past to see how we changed from past to present. Also we look at the past to see if we can recycle ideas. For example, we could recycle ancient consumption habits and apply them to our daily life to improve our lives. This is because our diets have become worse and worse over time, probably because we wanted to do less and less work. Technology was developed so we could be more and more lazy. So, hopefully we can change our diets to somewhat more like an ancient diet. But, our diet is not the only unhealthy thing about us. It is also the lack of exercise in modern times that is making us unhealthy. Let’s change our habits and make our lives