Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 664 Vigorous Pickled Puffin

Why eating staple food will reduce the demand for vitamin C, in fact, we have to start with a "slag receptor".

Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant and is necessary for collagen formation.

Collagen, on the other hand, is the main component of the body's connective tissue, which is essential for the structure and support of the body, including blood vessels.

Therefore, when there is a lack of vitamin C, as long as there is a little pressure outside, the blood may seep out of the blood vessel wall, causing bleeding, which is scurvy.

Once suffering from scurvy, there may be bleeding gums, loose teeth, difficult wound healing, joint pain and other conditions.

The absorption of glucose and vitamin C, in fact, there is a "competitive relationship."

In the 1970s, John Te, an emeritus professor at the University of Washington, proposed his glucose-ascorbic acid antagonism, or GAA theory, which pointed out that elevated glucose levels in the body would prevent vitamin C from entering cells to play a role.

This is because glucose and vitamin C have similar chemical compositions, and they enter cells through the same "Glut-1 receptor".

Glut-1 receptors prefer glucose over vitamin C, which means that, given the opportunity to "compete", it will choose sugar over vitamin C.

Bi Fang explained a lot, and finally changed to a common saying: "In other words, this receptor is quite vain, and if there are good ones, it will kick away the ones that are close to it."

[Understood, scum receptor! 】

[Aside from the facts, is there nothing wrong with vitamin C? 】

[Just for a taste! 】

The main source of glucose is carbohydrates, so without carbohydrate intake, the demand for vitamin C is naturally not high. The reason why seafarers are prone to scurvy is because they eat too much black bread.

Thinking of this, Bi Fang gnawed another piece of fish, sipped it, and spat out a fishbone.

Bi Fang had already forgotten what the turf smelled like. It was taken out of the memory palace, frozen with liquid nitrogen, fired with a torch, and turned into sifted powder.

That thing is really a painful memory. The earthy smell is mixed with the smell of dry grass, and it has a taste like ice balls. It is far less delicious than fat and oil. Work.

Compared with seafood, river fish has a more muddy smell, especially when eaten raw, but in Bi Fang's mouth at this time, it has become an extremely rare delicacy.

At least much better than Kiwiak, the traditional Inuit delicacy.

Thinking of this, Bi Fang added something.

"Actually, the description I just made is not entirely accurate. The Inuit eat not all raw meat, but more of a kind of cooked raw meat, which is a naturally fermented food without any treatment, called Kiwiak. That's 'pickled puffin'."

"Because of the lack of food, especially the lack of sources of vitamins such as green vegetables, peoples at high latitudes basically have a similar custom of eating raw meat. On the one hand, they lack fuel, and on the other hand, they need to supplement vitamins. However, raw meat is not convenient to preserve, especially It’s summer, so they still eat fermented raw meat more.”

For the Inuit, living in Greenland is actually not an easy task, otherwise it would not happen to be frozen to death in the igloo.

Therefore, every spring and summer, they will go out to hunt and collect food that can survive the whole winter. This is a necessary process. If they can't do it, they are very likely to freeze to death in winter.

No one will come to help you, because most people are struggling to maintain their own survival. They are not unwilling, but they have no spare energy to help. Even if they have spare energy, how long can they help?

The ice and snow in Greenland is indeed good for food preservation, but the temperature in summer can reach above zero, and it will be fine after a week. It will rot after a long time, so it can only be artificially fermented.

Fermentation and decay are two different things. The former is a process in which beneficial bacteria utilize organic matter. Eating it is beneficial to the human body, and even food will be more nutritious. The latter is a process in which harmful bacteria multiply, and food cannot be eaten.

"For example, the famous canned herring, a traditional Swedish delicacy, is made from lightly rotted and fermented herring."

"The Kiwiak of the Inuit is a bit rougher. This kind of food is very complicated to make and takes a long time to complete, at least not in my 100 days of survival. "

"The method of making this kind of food is simply to leave the petrel's body untreated. It doesn't pluck the hair, don't remove the internal organs, put it directly into the seal's body, soak it in the seal's gastric juice, and then use the seal's body after suturing. Grease seal."

"Then bury the seals in the permafrost, ferment for 2 to 3 years, then dig out the seals, then cut open the belly, take out the seabirds, and eat them directly."

In terms of production methods, it is actually raw meat, because it has not been roasted at any high temperature, and the protein itself does not have denaturation.

"Because the feathers don't ferment, they will keep the original shape of the seabird, and there is no change. One can imagine the cost of that kind of food.

[Fuck, is this a fucking food for people to eat? 】

[Too hard. . . 】

[I bought canned herring once, and the taste is still unforgettable]

Seeing a wail in the barrage in the live broadcast room, Bi Fang chuckled.

"There are actually two ways to eat it. The first one is to pull out the tail of the bird and suck it from the moon work gate of the seabird with its mouth to suck out the fermented and decomposed internal organs. I heard that it has a taste similar to bran and natto. And the taste of the fermented mixture coming together."

"The second way to eat it is to spread the contents of the bird's stomach on the barbecue."

With the development of human history, the custom of cooking cooked meat to eat has taken root among the Inuit, and there is also a source of fresh vegetables, which reduces the chance of obtaining vitamins from raw meat, so they put pickled puffins Served as a seasoning spread on grilled meat.

Hearing this, everyone was dumbfounded.

I thought that canned herring was already invincible, but I didn't expect there to be a more powerful food than it?

The way to eat is even more vigorous!

[If you don't deal with it, it means there is feces. . . 】

[Bird intestines are different from other animals, if you have them, pull them, it should be fine]

【Too heavy mouth, already want to vomit】

[I just happened to be eating too, woo woo woo]

Water lovers find it hard to believe that humans eat this kind of food, but for the Inuit people, this is a rare delicacy that can provide them with vitamins that are urgently needed in the Arctic.

This is a forced adaptation of human beings to the living environment. It is impossible to expect how delicious it is.

Bi Fang has never tasted canned herring, but the taste is definitely not very good, so he dare not try it lightly.

His sense of smell is much more sensitive than that of ordinary people, and he was afraid that if he smelled it, he might smoke it.