So Jamaican food is bad for you? Breh calorie counts Jamaican food. I am weeping

[Lexx Diamond]

People don’t eat that type of food everyday.

Like you look at a soul food plate and people say “oh yams, macaroni and cheese, potato salad, dressing, and fried turkey is bad for you” well yeah it’s bad for you if you eat it everyday. Most people don’t eat that every damn day.

Jamaicans ain’t eating take out plate food everyday day either.

I eat Jamaican food everyday at home. Instead of vegetable oil I use coconut oil and never get crazy with salt. I'm not in tropical Jamaica so I never eat more than one dumpling in the evening. The problem with take out food is you don't really know how much salt and sugar is in the food. I started taking food to work when I was about 25 because I don't eat swine and I'm scornful of other peoples kitchen.

 

[Ku$h Parker]

Bwatty boiii scared of a likkle calories!!!!

BO!

 

[Lexx Diamond]

To be fair, he insinuated that he’s Chinese.

It makes sense why our people eat all that goddamn food though. Factor in the “western diet” pros and cons, and folks not working on the farm all day to burn it off anymore & you get a population

Plei Boi, grandmas China are plates. Plates that were way smaller than the plates I see folks eating out of nowadays.

 

[Jammer22]

I was having this conversation with my mother, during the early 90’s she was a secretary of Karl Samuda’s (former minister of agriculture of Jamaica). A lot the nutritional inadequacies of the slave ration based Jamaican diet were further entrenched among the post-emancipation peasant population because of restrictions set on commerce (they weren’t codified into law from what I know but they were heavy handedly) enforced), for instance my grandmother told me when she was a higgler in the 40’s and 50’s Black Jamaican’s in the countryside were relegated to selling ground provisions. Fast forward to now and it’s heavily reflected on the plates of the masses of Jamaica. Jamaica’s a former sugar plantation colony and agrarian society, these are the remnants. Same can be said with confectioneries and treats, they’re loaded with exorbitant amounts of sugar. Busta’s, buns, grater cakes, tamarind, balls, peanut punch are too damn sweet.​

Visited aunty and Uncle two years ago. Dad and i made some juices from the apple tree cause it was dropping going to waste. When we had my dad's work friends visit, I was surprised at some of the older people from my dad generation having diabetes. (He's 70s).
I know the government trying to get people aware of watching the soda and bad juice, but how big of a problem is diabetes for older folks vs young out there?

 

[Prodyson]

He estimates 2 tablespoons of oil for that amount of ackee, but also indicated Ackee has its own good fats, which means all the fat he mentioned (that was dripping at the bottom) likely didn’t come from added oil. It looked like fat mixed with water that got released from the food and/or condensation.

Also, like some have said, that portion was pretty large. Particularly the starches. Not saying the food is super healthy, but he definitely overestimated the oil used. Plus, that was more than one serving. Probably closer to around 800-1000 calories for a true single portion

 

[Caca-faat]

He estimates 2 tablespoons of oil for that amount of ackee, but also indicated Ackee has its own good fats, which means all the fat he mentioned (that was dripping at the bottom) likely didn’t come from added oil. It looked like fat mixed with water that got released from the food and/or condensation.

Also, like some have said, that portion was pretty large. Particularly the starches. Not saying the food is super healthy, but he definitely overestimated the oil used. Plus, that was more than one serving. Probably closer to around 800-1000 calories for a true single portion

Ackee doesn’t produce oil when it’s cooking, you always end up adding oil to it. So any oil you see pooling is oil that has been added. It doesn’t produce much liquid either and not all ackee is the same, you have butter ackee which is softer and probably more fatty and firm ackee. In order to get oil from the ackee I imagine you would have to roast it at high heat then press it to get any oil out of it.

 

[Regular Developer]

I eat Jamaican food everyday at home. Instead of vegetable oil I use coconut oil and never get crazy with salt. I'm not in tropical Jamaica so I never eat more than one dumpling in the evening. The problem with take out food is you don't really know how much salt and sugar is in the food. I started taking food to work when I was about 25 because I don't eat swine and I'm scornful of other peoples kitchen.

Im not good about meal prep, and I didn't want to be that a$$hole at lunch time that kept saying where I could and couldn't eat, when I was working on gaining weight. I just made sure i had an overall plan for the day, looked up the nutritional menus at all the lunch places we normally would eat, and then I'd make up for any of the lunch macros or sodium by cooking at night.

 

[desjardins]

I mean duh
I figured the same went for Nigerian food with all that palm oil
People in those countries eat smaller portions and likely are way more active than us so it balances out for them

 

[Lexx Diamond]

He estimates 2 tablespoons of oil for that amount of ackee, but also indicated Ackee has its own good fats, which means all the fat he mentioned (that was dripping at the bottom) likely didn’t come from added oil. It looked like fat mixed with water that got released from the food and/or condensation.

Also, like some have said, that portion was pretty large. Particularly the starches. Not saying the food is super healthy, but he definitely overestimated the oil used. Plus, that was more than one serving. Probably closer to around 800-1000 calories for a true single portion

In 2003 I was listening to NPR and a medical doctor from Guyana, broke down why West Indian and Caribbean people in the states have issues with high blood pressure and diabetes. He cited the fact that we are eating larger portions of food than we would have been eating back home. Also, the lack of sunlight and absence of walking long distances daily. Factor in the vegetable oil/bio diesel fuel and you have the high cholesterol cause.

 

[StretfordRed]

All fats aren't unhealthy.

Fats from butter, ghee, olive oil, and even fresh lard are not unhealthy.

It's the seed oil fats from corn oil, peanut oil, and vegetable oil that are not good at all.

Caribbean food doesn’t use any of that normally. Just vegetable oil.

 

[acri1]

Calories don't make something unhealthy, that's only an issue if you're eating too much of it.

For example I had a burrito bowl yesterday that's probably like 1300 calories. But I didn't eat much else so the calories weren't an issue (and no, I've never had weight problems).

In fact if I go out to eat I prefer high calorie meals so I'll have some leftover for later.

 

[lord canon]

The food is not the problem,