^ Agreed, but with kids and Thai not known for their daily intake of Fruit and Veg ... a multivitamin is a rest easy insurance policy.
Kids mimic adults, hence I take one also.
^ Agreed, but with kids and Thai not known for their daily intake of Fruit and Veg ... a multivitamin is a rest easy insurance policy.
Kids mimic adults, hence I take one also.
To the above comments ...
My Boys are 6 YO and live in the West ATM
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But, in Thailand I didn't see much eating of fruit and little of vegetables by the young ones.
Adults, a little more ... Green Mango/PawPaw salad being an exception.
Just my experiences living in a large Thai Family
It's everywhere mate. The kids are always walking around with the little bags of pineapple that you get for 10 to 20 baht or so on the street (admittedly often doused in sugar and chili, but still...) and the adults will always have a bag next to their desk in the office.
Go out with any Thai for a cheap meal at lunch (khao gaeng) or to a more expensive restaurant and there'll always be at least one plate of vegetables ordered.
Thai [and their children] consume varying degrees of veges everyday -
Raw, cooked, whatever.
Indeed.
All those horrible Isaan fishy dips where a fucking raw green bean is used or something!
Not my cup of chai, but to say that Thais don't get enough veggies?!?!?!?!
Bizarre, to say the least. For fucks sake, every food stall has various greens available when you sit down for your lunch/evening meal!
'available' and 'consumed' are different concepts.
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Mate, everyone's experience differs.
My experience is a decade (on and off) living in Thailand, the majority of which lived with an extensive, diverse Thai Family.
Your Thai experience is obviously different.
Both experiences are mutually different, but still factual.
I'd say Yes they do or close anyway. I see Thai kids and adults eating fruit constantly. Pineapple, Thai apples, Noi Na, bananas, mango, oranges. Veggies is in almost every meal. That said they also eat a ton of processed meats.
My experience says that they eat shit loads of greens and fruit.
From a Thai family having what seemed like eating an endless amount of the green stuff and a small amount of meat, to living in a condo in Chiang Mai and watching the universality and school kids line up to a mobile fruit stall before and after school( set up at 6AM every morning...fuckers used to wake me up!)
Perhaps vegetables and fruit consumption are different in Isaan. But for sure here in Bangkok everyone eats fruit daily. So easy to just pick up a bag of any kind for virtually nothing. Fresh vegetables everyday as well. Dont forget with the climate here both fruit and veg is available everyday fresh and full of vitamins.
From here we go to the vitamins. Neither I or anyone in my family takes vitamins as we get them through the fruit and veg. Remember though the staple food of Isaan is Kao Neow which is eaten with a different type of Thai food than Kao Suay.
So perhaps you are seeing something different up in Isaan. With its heavy Thai/Chinese population BKK does eat very different than Isaan. In fact I only learned to love vegetables here. The way they are prepared on high heat and stir fried with oyster sauce and garlic makes them simply delicious.
Look at Bowies dinner thread contributions for how most Bangkokians eat.. Loads of fruit and veg daily.
Has this been modded?
I doubt much of your veg is grown in Bangkok
Talking from what I've seen, the majority of your average Thais diet is veg, fruit and rice with minimal protein compared to what we ingest.
5 a day? More like 20 a day
The wife is a Botanist when it comes to scavenging off the land and knows all the plants, which I'd imagine nearly all Rural Thais do.
Mate, I haven't lived in Thailand for over 10 moon and have not been back on me hols for the last 2 or 3 years, but the comments above confirm what I'm (and Jeff, to be fair to the nob) saying. The problem with the Thai diet is the amount of sugar and salt that goes into the cooking, not the amount of greens they eat.
We grow tomatoes, chilies, pakana, krapow, runner beans, squash, mangoes, limes, bananas and cabbage on our land. Broccoli, cauliflower and other veg is purchased at the market. Mostly grown in Prathum Thani. The fruit the wife chooses is based on which province grows the tastiest type of fruit she wants.
Based on the posts above, I wholeheartedly accept that the majority of members here are correct and my experiences are an outlier to the norm.
PLUS, I reckon it's great that so much fruit and veg is eaten.
It's not my experience, but I can't ignore the weight of your collective experiences.
When the Covid19 restrictions ease and we revisit the Thai Farm, I'll take more note to see what we, as a large Thai Family eat.
Maybe it's my perception and the Thai Family is doing better then I recall.
Time will tell
PS ... what's the vege content of Humble Pie
Last edited by David48atTD; 28-06-2020 at 09:21 AM.
Yeah, the OP is bizarre.
But... he doesn't live in Thailand, or seem particularly clued in.
The Isaan diet is nothing like the Central and Southern Thai diet. Its that simple.
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