Working Prophet.

Chapter 295 Carp and Tofu

In fact, Li Yu has been paying attention to nutrition issues for a long time. When the lizard people first came out of the swamp, they were more or less suffering from some diseases.

When Li Yu saw a doctor for them, he found that many people's problems were actually caused by lack of nutrition.

Due to the lack of materials in the swamp, it is difficult to cultivate, and the source of food for the lizard people is relatively simple.

Some of them have shortness of breath, fatigue easily, frequent headaches, severe walking difficulties, and even dementia, all of which are caused by folic acid deficiency.

In contrast, people outside the swamp rarely have such problems, because foods containing folic acid are actually quite common outside.

Bread (or other whole grains), beans, broccoli...these are all foods that even ordinary people eat regularly.

Similarly, there is also riboflavin, also called vitamin B2, which is contained in yeast, soybeans, and milk products. In some vegetables, riboflavin also exists in large quantities in animal liver, kidney, heart and poultry eggs.

It can still be replenished in the swamp.

As far as the marshes are concerned, nutritional deficiencies persist and are widespread.

After all, in the universe where Li Yu lives, vitamins were not discovered until the 19th century. Although some dietary guidelines were published before that, they were all based on experience and mixed with many assumptions and fallacies.

There are similar problems on the Bratis continent. The nobles and rich people here firmly believe that wheat is the most nutritious, especially finely sifted flour. The more carefully sifted, the less impurities in the bread, and the better it tastes. healthy.

Small border aristocrats like the Arias family, who are not particularly particular, can knead the dough and ferment after sifting it once or twice, and Miss Rabbit doesn't mind it very much if they bring a little bran.

But for those real nobles in the capital, they have a group of dedicated servants to do this kind of thing, they can sift seven or eight times, exaggeratedly even a dozen times, it is said that Count Rodrigo once held a banquet, he The cook sifted the flour for bread 27 times.

The bread made is as white as snow and soft in taste, even the emperor and queen are full of praise after eating it.

In addition to bread, all kinds of meat are also indispensable on the table of nobles.

Not only all kinds of domestic animals and poultry, but also game in the forest, roe deer, hare, antelope, quail, even swan, egret... are very popular, supplemented with various precious spices, it is a delicacy.

But the upper echelons of the empire are very repulsive to fruits and vegetables, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, probably because they feel that unprocessed food is difficult to make people feel at ease, and it cannot match their identities.

However, this kind of inexplicable conceit will cause many of them to become loose teeth, curly hair, skin diseases, wounds difficult to heal, and even personality changes due to lack of vitamin C.

On the contrary, the commoners would go to the woods to dig some wild vegetables and mushrooms to fill their stomachs from time to time because they had what to eat. The recipes were wider than those of the nobles.

The main problems they face are too little meat intake, insufficient protein, and lack of vitamin B12 and vitamin D, causing bleeding gums, yellow eyes and skin, pernicious anemia, nausea, spinal cord deformation, rickets, rickets and other symptoms.

Li Yu saw many patients like this when wandering around the village. Some children were born unable to walk. The priests of the Silver Moon Church called these deformed children abandoned by God, saying that they were polluted by filth since birth.

The mothers of those children also asked Li Yu for help, hoping that he could help their children recover, but Li Yu had no good solution for the bone deformities caused by severe rickets.

Modern medicine is not omnipotent, and Li Yu is not a professional physician.

He is more from the perspective of prevention, trying to reduce the chance of such things happening from the source as much as possible.

Li Yu's plan is a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, he preaches to believers the importance of a balanced diet. He even plans to add this part of the content to the precepts in the future.

In addition, in response to the general lack of protein and the lack of vitamin B12 and vitamin D among ordinary people, Li Yu's solution is to develop the aquaculture industry, or more precisely, to dig ponds for fish farming.

The reason why fish is raised instead of pigs, cattle, and chickens is because the cost of raising fish is the lowest.

If meat is to be available to most people, not just a small part of the ruling class, the cost of meat production must be completely reduced.

Speaking of which, Li Yu found inspiration from "History of the Crusades".

The first Crusade, also known as the Civilian Crusade, was basically a group of mobs who, under the leadership of Hermit Peter, burned, killed and looted all the way, like a swarm of locusts, committed countless appalling evils, and finally in 1096 It was defeated by the Turkish army and almost wiped out.

But they were not in vain, and those who escaped by chance also brought some carp back along the way.

After that, the Europeans began to learn from their enemies and raised carp in large quantities.

This kind of miraculous fish actually came from a distant ancient oriental country. They are famous for their tenacious vitality, fast reproduction speed, and rapid growth. They don’t even need to prepare special fish food, and they can grow by feeding some leftovers. very good.

It is an excellent source of meat. Although there are a lot of thorns, this is not a problem for Li Yu. The only problem is how to find carp.

Li Yu did not find any traces of this fish when he was doing product surveys in the green field, and no one in the entire Western Territory had even seen carp.

Therefore, the Prophet of Shuangxiu could only entrust the Golden Fleece Chamber of Commerce to help him search for carp on the continent of Bratis. As long as the live carp can be transported to the green field, Li Yu is willing to pay a high price of three thousand gold coins. acquisition.

Of course, Li Yu was not idle before the carp came, and planned to raise some pike first.

The ancient Romans once raised pike as one of the sources of meat, but with the collapse of the Roman Empire, the originally thriving fish farming industry disappeared like many technologies.

Like carp, pike is also a freshwater fish that is relatively easy to raise, with delicious meat and fast growth.

But compared to carp pike, they are more ferocious. In addition to attacking other fish, they will also attack small animals such as frogs, wild ducks, and mice. If there is no food, they will kill each other.

The difficulty and cost of raising carp are higher than that of carp, but the advantage is that it is easy to obtain, and it is available in the nearby river, so it can be raised immediately.

It can be used as an excess first, and some farming experience can also be accumulated.

In addition to digging fish ponds, Li Yu also plans to introduce tofu to Bratis as another means of supplementing protein.

Unlike carp, which has to be searched all over the world, tofu is very easy to make. The raw materials only need various beans, gypsum and a few simple steps to produce it, so that the originally bad taste of beans can also become delicious.

(End of this chapter)