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Okinawan cuisine (沖縄料理, Okinawa ryōri) is the cuisine of the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan. The cuisine is also known as Ryūkyūan cuisine (琉球料理, Ryūkyū ryōri), a reference to the Ryukyu Kingdom. [1] Due to differences in culture, historical contact between other regions, climate, vegetables and other ingredients, Okinawan ...
v. t. e. Rafute is a pork belly dish in the Okinawan cuisine of the island of Okinawa, Japan. Rafute is skin-on pork belly [1] stewed in soy sauce and brown sugar. It is traditionally considered to help with longevity. [2] Rafute was originally a form of Okinawan Royal Cuisine. [3] In Hawaii, rafute is known as "shoyu pork," [4] which is served ...
The Okinawa diet had only 30% of the sugar and 15% of the grains of the average Japanese dietary intake. Okinawan cuisine consists of smaller meal portions of green and yellow vegetables, soy and other legumes, relatively small amounts of rice compared to mainland Japan, as well as occasional fish and pork. The center of the Okinawan cuisine is ...
The Okinawa diet is a traditional dietary pattern originating from the Japanese island of Okinawa known for its association with longevity, low body mass index, and low rates of chronic diseases ...
Okinawa has the world's highest proportion of centenarians, at approximately 50 per 100,000 people. They are known to practise hara hachi bun me , [2] and as a result they typically consume about 1,800 [3] to 1,900 kilo-calories per day. [8]
t. e. The Ryukyu Kingdom [a] was a kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands from 1429 to 1879. It was ruled as a tributary state of imperial Ming China by the Ryukyuan monarchy, who unified Okinawa Island to end the Sanzan period, and extended the kingdom to the Amami Islands and Sakishima Islands.
The mainland Japanese custom of eating soba on New Year's Eve was introduced to Okinawa in 1968, but buckwheat noodles were replaced by wheat noodles. Today, Okinawa soba is considered as a vital part of traditional Okinawan culture, although folklorist Nishimura Hidemi argued that it was an invented tradition .
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