Leafy greens first cooked 3,500 years ago??
Leafy greens first cooked 3,500 years ago??
Green-leafy vegetables were first cooked and served on a plate in West Africa three and a half thousand years ago. We are often advised to eat green and leafy vegetables, but do you know that for the first time these vegetables were cooked 3500 years ago today?
Recently, archaeologists have revealed in a study that three and a half thousand years ago in West Africa, green-leafy vegetables were first cooked and served on a plate. For this, Goethe university in germany and the university of Bristol in britain studied 450 historical utensils, of which 66 were present in the lipids.
The research team studied these vessels by taking samples of lipids. The results, published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, showed that one-third of the 66 lipid profiles were associated with plant species. However, these leafy vegetables were cooked by mixing them with spices and other vegetables. Apart from this, people used to cook and eat them with fish and meat.At the same time, researchers from the university of Bristol believe that the people of Central nigeria like to eat different types of plants with spices in their food.
Green-leafy vegetables were first cooked and served on a plate in West Africa three and a half thousand years ago. We are often advised to eat green and leafy vegetables, but do you know that for the first time these vegetables were cooked 3500 years ago today?
Recently, archaeologists have revealed in a study that three and a half thousand years ago in West Africa, green-leafy vegetables were first cooked and served on a plate. For this, Goethe university in germany and the university of Bristol in britain studied 450 historical utensils, of which 66 were present in the lipids.
The research team studied these vessels by taking samples of lipids. The results, published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, showed that one-third of the 66 lipid profiles were associated with plant species. However, these leafy vegetables were cooked by mixing them with spices and other vegetables. Apart from this, people used to cook and eat them with fish and meat.At the same time, researchers from the university of Bristol believe that the people of Central nigeria like to eat different types of plants with spices in their food.