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Holozoic nutrition (Greek: holo-whole ; zoikos-of animals) is a type of heterotrophic nutrition that is characterized by the internalization and internal processing of liquids or solid food particles. [1]
This is a list of ancient dishes, prepared foods and beverages that have been recorded as originating in ancient history. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian cuneiform script, the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the protoliterate period around 3,000 to 2,900 years BCE.
This is a category for notable foods that were once eaten but are no longer commonly eaten, or which are no longer eaten in their original form. Subcategories This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total.
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This is a list of soul foods and dishes.Soul food is the ethnic cuisine of African Americans that originated in the Southern United States during the era of slavery. [1] It uses a variety of ingredients and cooking styles, some of which came from West African and Central African cuisine brought over by enslaved Africans while others originated in Europe.
The combination of maize and these basic foods would have provided the average diet. Aztec cuisine was a very well-rounded diet without any significant deficiencies in vitamins or minerals. [ citation needed ] The cooking of maize grains in alkaline solutions, a process called nixtamalization , significantly raised the nutritional value of the ...
Most organic foods decay under ordinary conditions, but ashes and animal bones offer some archaeological details about the ancient Roman diet. Phytoliths have been found at a cemetery in Tarragona, Spain. Imported figs were among the charred foods preserved when Boudica and her army burned down a Roman shop in Colchester.
This sculpture depicts a Maya nobleman holding cacao, which was essential in the Maya diet as a component of chocolate drinks. Pre-Columbian cuisine refers to the cuisine consumed by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before Christopher Columbus and other European explorers explored the region and introduced crops and livestock from Europe ...