Really Strange Health Foods
April 10, 2009 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Adventure, Extreme, Food and Drink
Last month Dr Manny from Fox News enlisted the help of Chris Kilham (aka the Medicine Hunter) and went on a culinary quest to find some really strange health foods.
His first port of call was an ice cream factory in New York City’s Chinatown to sample dorian ice cream. Dorian, a fruit that’s has been cultivated in southeast Asia since prehistoric times, is loved by many Asian communities. It’s odd appearance (think football with spikes) and abhorent rotten garbage smell, though, has prevented the fruit from become popular in the western world. One look at Dr Manny’s face when he was trying this and it’s pretty obvious that the ice cream doesn’t kill the smell.
As for it’s health benefits, apparently it is thought to act as an aphrodisiac!!!
The next stop in Dr Manny’s culinary quest took him to a Japanese restaurant Morimoto to sample blowfish sperm (health benefits – a source of zinc and DHA which is good for the brain)
Personally I’d have stopped there but Dr Manny and the Medicine Hunter went on to try sea urchins (health benefit – rich in antioxident compounds, protein, and Vit B) and smelly Natto (health benefits – good for digestion, has compounds that inhibit tumors, and a source of Vit B).
It’s really worth checking out the videos of Dr Manny’s culinary quest just to watch the expressions on his face while tasting these strange health foods
In this case, a picture paints a thousand words.
(image from flickr / soma-samui.com)
it’s dUrian!