![]() Not entirely guilt free (low carb) with some added flour, but worth trying. If you’re a fan of a bitter aftertaste or just like trying something really different, this snack is for you. It looks like a fat cucumber with bad acne. Ingredients: soybeans, green peas, red beans, chickpeas The 4 Hour Body #6 Goya Chips Lectins- RUN! ! ! If you’re a big fan of Tim’s Ferriss’s The 4 Hour Body (like I am) , you’ll like this snack. Steven Gundry, you’re probably deathly afraid of legumes now. If you’ve just read The Plant Paradox by Dr. ![]() Yesterday I saw “Eggcellent Egg Tarts” at the airport. There’s no escape in the “land of the rising puns.” Quoting my first grade students, “I don’t get it. In Japan, there’s a lot of both so it’s hard to avoid. I tend to avoid soybeans and product named with bad puns. I don’t buy this snack often, though it’s pretty good and filling. What did the edamame say to the green pea? (In Hokkaido, you’d have a hard time not finding it!) #5 Organic Beans (variety pack) Nothing goes better with saké! (The only possible exception is karasumi, sun-dried salted mullet roe, but it’s super expensive.)Īvailable at: Seijo Ishii (this brand) and supermarkets and convenience stores all over Japan. In the winter, it’s so good! Often you’ll find it on the menu at an izakaya that specializes in seafood. Shake toba is one of my favorite snacks in Japan, especially if you put it on the grill and eat it when it’s warm and crispy. You could compare it to salmon jerky from Alaska. This dried fish snack is famous in Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island. If you like beef jerky or smoked salmon, you’d like shake toba. Even an entire slab of konnyaku you’d buy at a Japanese supermarket is almost zero calories.įlavors: kuromitsu (brown sugar) cinnamon, plum, beef, scallop, smoked squid, and mitarashi (skewered rice dumplings in a sweet soy glaze)Īvailable at: Natural Lawson convenience stores It’s made from konjac, a root that’s used to make konnyaku jelly or shirataki noodles (the clear ‘miracle’ noodles used in beef sukiyaki). It won’t make you feel full or energized, but it’s worth trying once. This is a snack for when you just feel like chewing on something. Two ingredients: organic mung beans and salt (gluten free)Īvailable at: Crayon House, Natural House, and Bio C’Bon #3 Dried Konyaku Chips I had never heard of mung beans- they’re mainly cultivated in countries like India, China, and Southeast Asia. I rotate in this flavor so I don’t get sick of eating pea chips. Two ingredients: organic peas and salt (gluten free)Īvailable at: Crayon House, Natural House, and Bio C’Bon #2 Organic Mung Bean Chips If I dip them in extra virgin olive oil and sea salt, they’re just as satisfying as potato chips. Which is why I eat these pea chips way too often. ![]() Transitioning to a low carb diet, I missed the crunchy texture of chips, crackers, and pretzels. If you do, send me a picture and I’ll keep it enshrined on my wall permanently. I crack up just imagining you boiling and marinating quail eggs in soy sauce. ![]() To avoid all the plastic packaging, or for those of you who don’t live in Japan, hopefully you’ll feel inspired enough to replicate one of these snacks in your kitchen at home. Here’s my list of healthy Japanese snacks to help get you started. With your eyes peeled and an open mind, you can find more low carb/ low sugar options. These past few weeks, I’ve been scouring the shelves of natural food stores in Tokyo to find more options for snacks on the go. Yah, I could eat dried squid and seaweed, but how much dried squid can one person eat. Just a few pieces of cassava roots contain a fatal dose of poison.) Pepper (African) White rice (China/India) Wild African rice (Senegal also where jollof came from) Tomatoes (Mexico) Onion (India) Chicken (Europe) Pig (Europe) White bread (Europe) Potatoes that we eat now (Ireland) Original potato (lake titikaka, Peru) There is no relative in Africa to the goat or sheep, that are related to the current domestic goat and sheep that you are consuming everyday in Africa.Are you looking for healthy Japanese snacks that suit your diet?īeing in Japan on a low carb diet, I’ve always found it hard to find healthy snacks that I could have. Keto and paleo are still relatively unknown here. When eaten raw, the human digestive system will convert this to cyanide poison. It is chemically similar to sugar but with a CN ion attached. The toxin in cassava is called “linamarin”. Maize (The America’s) Millet (African) Banana (Malaysia) Yam (Africa) Cassava (Brazil, contains cyanide It is the reason the Japanese Ministry of Health prohibits the use of cassava for human consumption. Much of the food that people are calling African isn’t actually African.
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