Daal aata rice, all things you can store in the closet for months on end take out and eat. Have a high and extremes of blood sugar
No natural monosaturated fats (avacado, olives). Everything from the kahjoors to the meat (lamb vs goat) in Pakistan sucks. It is like eating the basic calorie requirement with no nutrition for malnourished people. Shahi-Tukra, a desert made out of white bread (the most processed least nutritious part).
In contrast middle eastern food, everything is fresh. Everything is marinated and cooked healthy with oolive oil, monosaturated fats, salads (almost non existent in Pakistani culture) and vegetables.
Often times I will see Pakistanis just thaw chicken with a huge watery chicken smell, throw some garlic/gigner (which are highly acidic,strong,hard to digest) and some masala and think that is fine to eat, and easily digestable. It’s not. Learn to marinate your food. Much tastier and goes down easier.
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Are you a scientist?
Firstly lentils are very good for you. Pakistani diet also is high in spices like chilli and turmeric which fight off disease. High veg intake. High fruit intake. Low red meat unless youre rich. Indian sub continent population has very low instances of bowel cancer. However yes white flour and white rice aren’t great for you but if eaten with pulses or veg/ basically fibre or protein this lowers the glycemic load.
Pakistan is 165th on the global obesity list.
Middle Eastern countries feature right at the top. They eat lots of red meat, lots of breads and lots of rice. They don’t have the variety of fruits and vegetables. They eat a lot of dates which cause insulin spikes.
Best diets are meditaranean or Scandinavian diets. Mediterranean people eat very little red meat, lots of fish, lots of fresh vegetables and fruits. Not a lot of bread or other simple carbs. Sxandinavean people eat lots of raw ingredients fish meat all raw and get the most nutrients this way.
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I have had the pleasure of having both kinds of foods regularly and I can vouch for it, the only bit that is unhealthy is our lifestyle , not the food itself , unless of course its junk food !
The spices used in asian food are very beneficial for health.
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Authentic middle eastern food is cooked in fat and purely fat…the amount of red meat consumed in a middle eastern diet is higher than Pakistani diets so NO its not healthier or fresher.
Pakistani food is amazing…yes it can be cooked healthy or unhealthy..and .this much is true for ALL types of cuisine. Not just Pakistani.
Please get your facts straight before commenting like this.
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I think everyone is generalising quite a bit about “Middle Eastern food.” There really is no such thing “Middle Eastern food.” The Middle East is not one country, but a region consisting of several countries. While there are similarities in cuisine, there are also marked differences based on country and each country has its own style of cuisine.
It is quite inaccurate to say that the cuisine of the Middle East is either healthy or unhealthy as this varies from country to country. For instance, in Lebanese cuisine, a variety of fruits and vegetables is quite common, as is fresh fish and seafood. Animal fats and red meat are consumed sparingly and poultry and seafood is consumed more often than red meat. There is also quite a variety of vegetarian dishes. In contrast, the cuisine of Iraq is heavily meat based, most often lamb or beef, and includes many fried foods, such as falafel, kibbeh and fried aubergine, as well as numerous heavy rice dishes.
That said, I don’t think that Pakistani food, in and of itself, is unhealthy. I think what is unhealthy is often the portions. The relatively large portions reflect a once active and physically demanding agrarian lifestyle that many people no longer have.
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Its ok guys , every one has the right to express opinions and the OP did just that. I know a lot of people who think desi food is pure unhealthy stuff and then I also know of my English friends who went to Middle East for holidays and came back saying , the arabs eat their meat raw ! its so unhealthy
I guess , it also depends on person to person, for example my friend made gobi aalo and she just steamed it lightly so the florets dont lose shape. But my family didnt enjoy it one bit coz we classed it as still being raw ! when she ate gobi aloo at my place , she thought I had killed the nutrition of the gobi with all that Bhooning that I did with it !
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and not to forget I have told my english friends , mostly their food is so devoid of the important spices that it can be easily classed as a basic food for survival!
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Yes Pakistani food sucks , Pakistan sucks, Pakistani culture sucks, Pakistani dresses suck. Please let me know if I left out something from the list of Pakland bashing. I want to look cool by riding the Pakland bashing bandwagon with you.
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I think OP is confusing Mediterranean food with Middle Eastern food.
Pakistanis in Pakistan do tend to eat unhealthy though. Lots of oil and sugar. Some spices are nice but we tend to overdo them at times.
The only time you see long queues in Pakistan is when we are voting or when we are shopping for sugar during a shortage. Well, if sugar cartels create shortage of sugar for a while to boost up the prices, STOP consuming it. Profit for both health and pockets.
I get dirty looks when I tell them that !