Japanese food

[nogutsnoglory]

What's safe to eat at a Japanese restaurant? I'm not sure if soy or teriyaki irritate me or not plus any other ingredients. I like avocado sushi but not sure the seaweed is easily digested.

 

[Keepingfaith]

Cooked sushi usually settles well in my stomach. The hibachi is what always messes my stomach up because of all the vegetables thrown into the mix. If I go out for Japanese I usually eat cooked sushi & order Hibachi Teryaki Chicken with no veggies, just noodles & rice.

 

[shmo]

Well there's gluten in the soy/teriyaki sauce if that makes you feel inflammed/bloated, as well as sugar in the teriyaki and rice however compared to what we normally eat, it's really in small amounts. I eat japanese food multiple times a week as it's one of the safest foods for me. Raw, cooked, doesn't matter. Plus the seaweed is full of calcium, iron and vitamins which is generally hard for me to get elsewhere

 

[Cat-a-Tonic]

I'm a bit leary of raw sushi, but I love cooked sushi. The seaweed/nori has never bothered my stomach and seems to digest just fine. I do always ask for no sesame seeds, as sometimes I'll get an unagi (cooked eel) bento box and the chef at my usual place always sprinkles sesame seeds on it. Sesame seeds just do not digest for me and will come out looking exactly the same, plus it's uncomfortable as they travel through and scrape along the sides of my intestines. Soy sauce and teriyaki don't seem to bother me, but as I'm sure you know we're all different so you'll have to exercise a bit of trial and error. Personally I seem to do fine with most Japanese food as long as I avoid the sesame seeds. If you're still unsure about the seaweed, you could try a bit of it in miso soup - it's probably softer in the soup so more easily digested, that's my guess. Good luck!

 

[mnsun]

From June 27th's interview by WBAI's Robert Knighton the program called 5 O'Clock Shadow, hosting Arnie Gundersen, of Fairewinds Energy Education, Arnie stated: "You know it's interesting cause while the Japanese are allowing fish to be sold now from near Fukushima, South Korea just banned 35 different seafood products from Japan, this is also today. So here in the United States, we have this policy of don't ask, don't tell--we don't ask the Japanese and they don't tell us--but the South Koreans are banning Japanese imports of seafood." They went on to talk about the rigged testing process in Japan which boiled octopus and snails BEFORE radiation testing which then came up "acceptable", and now these products (and probably others) are up for sale as exports. They also spoke of how Alaska/Oregon aren't testing their salmon, though it would be cheap enough, considering the stakes.

Consider hundreds of tons of radioactive water dumped into the ocean with isotopes' half lives ranging in months to decades to longer--isn't sashimi supposed to come from Japan? Anyhow, bluefin tuna have been documented to cross the pacific something like twice a year....All fifteen tuna, caught off the coast of California, 5 months after Fukushima, tested positive for the two isotopes of cesium (134/137) specific to Japan's reactors:
http://news.yahoo.com/radioactive-bluefin-tuna-crossed-pacific-us-190121826.html

Consider Sci Amer: "Radioactive Iodine from Fukushima Found in California Kelp"--what fish feed on...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-from-from-fukushima-found-in-california-kelp

It's a lot to take in and the media isn't going to tell people how bad it is, especially considering the extensive list of isotopes which haven't been adequately measured. Whoi.edu, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, is taking samples and states: "Over the coming months 16 labs in seven countries will analyze samples for a laundry list of isotopes that includes cesium-134 and -137; strontium-90; iodine-129; tritium; uranium-236; plutonium-239 and -240; rutherium-103 and -106; radium-223, -224, -228, and -226; and neptunium-237. And that will take time."

With each plume released, sometimes people will talk about radioactive iodine (about a month half life?) or cesium (134-10 years; 137-30 years). Filling your thyroid with good iodine MIGHT prevent uptake during releases, just as filling your muscles/bones with a steady supply of potassium MAY possibly prevent uptake of cesium.

Anyhow, I don't mean to piss on anyone's sushi parade but I hope this spurs some thought.

 

[Jennifer]

Meh, I'm still more concerned over mercury contents rather than the radiation.

Even with that being said, I have no problem eating Japanese food (minus raw seafood cause I don't like the taste or texture). The seafood doesn't bother me at all and like Cat said, the only things I'll ever have a problem with are the sesame seeds and sometimes the raw veggies (they're usually in small amounts though so I can tolerate them sometimes). Trial and error. Let us know if it works out ok.

 

[Susan2]

I, too, eat sushi and sashimi quite frequently and tolerate it very well, cooked or uncooked. There are a few sushi fillings that I avoid - crab, prawn, tofu and smoked salmon - because I know that they don't go down well for me. (I can't cope with anything smoked or cured - no bacon, except when I just can't resist a mouthful. )

I have no problem at all with the seaweed and often use it in cooking, the dried seaweed in soups and casseroles and seaweed power as a condiment. I don't eat the bright green seaweed salad that you get in Japanese restaurants because it has food colouring in it and includes sesame seeds, which I don't tolerate either.

The ginger also usually has food colouring in it. I have posted a recipe for making your own preserved ginger in another thread - it is simple to make.

On the whole, I find Japanese food easy to cope with.

 

[nogutsnoglory]

I definitely avoid sesame seeds for fear they will scrape my inflamed intestines. I suppose seaweed is ok and will become jelly like when down there.

 

[shmo]

From June 27th's interview by WBAI's Robert Knighton the program called 5 O'Clock Shadow, hosting Arnie Gundersen, of Fairewinds Energy Education, Arnie stated: "You know it's interesting cause while the Japanese are allowing fish to be sold now from near Fukushima, South Korea just banned 35 different seafood products from Japan, this is also today. So here in the United States, we have this policy of don't ask, don't tell--we don't ask the Japanese and they don't tell us--but the South Koreans are banning Japanese imports of seafood." They went on to talk about the rigged testing process in Japan which boiled octopus and snails BEFORE radiation testing which then came up "acceptable", and now these products (and probably others) are up for sale as exports. They also spoke of how Alaska/Oregon aren't testing their salmon, though it would be cheap enough, considering the stakes.

Consider hundreds of tons of radioactive water dumped into the ocean with isotopes' half lives ranging in months to decades to longer--isn't sashimi supposed to come from Japan? Anyhow, bluefin tuna have been documented to cross the pacific something like twice a year....All fifteen tuna, caught off the coast of California, 5 months after Fukushima, tested positive for the two isotopes of cesium (134/137) specific to Japan's reactors:
http://news.yahoo.com/radioactive-bluefin-tuna-crossed-pacific-us-190121826.html

Consider Sci Amer: "Radioactive Iodine from Fukushima Found in California Kelp"--what fish feed on...
http://www.scientificamerican.com/a...-from-from-fukushima-found-in-california-kelp

It's a lot to take in and the media isn't going to tell people how bad it is, especially considering the extensive list of isotopes which haven't been adequately measured. Whoi.edu, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, is taking samples and states: "Over the coming months 16 labs in seven countries will analyze samples for a laundry list of isotopes that includes cesium-134 and -137; strontium-90; iodine-129; tritium; uranium-236; plutonium-239 and -240; rutherium-103 and -106; radium-223, -224, -228, and -226; and neptunium-237. And that will take time."

With each plume released, sometimes people will talk about radioactive iodine (about a month half life?) or cesium (134-10 years; 137-30 years). Filling your thyroid with good iodine MIGHT prevent uptake during releases, just as filling your muscles/bones with a steady supply of potassium MAY possibly prevent uptake of cesium.

Anyhow, I don't mean to piss on anyone's sushi parade but I hope this spurs some thought.

Not to piss on your pissing, but as stated in the article you threw up there: "The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments."

Your getting more radiation in a day out in the sun than having some grams of tuna or any other seafood. While I don't know about eating any root vegetables grown around fukushima, it's been pretty well documented that, although radiation levels are higher than usual, it's really nothing to worry about. As stated by another member, you should probably be more concerned about the mercury levels. Or in my case, I'm more concerned about the stocks of the blue fin tuna which is why I tend to avoid it.

And I guess on top of that, a lot of what you find in North American sushi restaurants comes from an American habitat. Tuna (some), salmon, ******* (fake crab), real crab, unagi...