Posted on 09/03/2009 8:13:25 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Kimchi brings both health and beauty, according to devotees trying to promote South Korea's most famous food -- a pickled and fermented vegetable dish -- to the wider world.
"You know why there are so many beautiful women in Korea and Korean women have such smooth skin? It's because they have been grown on kimchi," claims Kim Sung-Hoon, who chairs an upcoming Gwangju Kimchi Festival.
"If you want to age gracefully and have beautiful skin, eat Korean kimchi," said Kim, a former agriculture minister.
Such assertions are not new given kimchi's iconic status -- it has its own museum in Seoul and was blasted into space with the country's first astronaut in 2008.
There have even been claims, unsupported by scientific evidence, that it can ward off bird flu and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
But some experts agree that substances in the side dish, which is eaten with just about every meal, may delay skin ageing.
"I would like to say to foreigners: eat Korean kimchi a lot," said Professor Song Yeong-Ok of the Kimchi Research Institute at Busan National University.
Lactic acid bacteria and plant chemicals may help retard skin ageing and reduce cholesterol levels, she said.
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I was about five years old and my Father, may He rest in peace made me eat that vile, nasty dish. I honestly tried to swallow it but I promptly threw up the contents of it on the dinner table. I detest creamed spinach to this day./Just Asking - seoul62.....
Kind of like eating other things, once you get past the smell........(nudge,nudge, wink, wink)
Yeah, but I LIKE -that- smell... :)
I love kimchi - especially with a Korean BBQ.
I like spinach too - must something wrong with me... ;-)
Now I know what to replace the butter beans with when I’m gearing up for my family reunions.
Yeah Man!
Foul smelling trash...not that there’s anything wrong with that.
And all we get on this post are pictures of Kimchi and 'stinky tofu'...
Still remember the burn - after forty-five years.....
LOL! Same here.
No different than garlic cheddar wurst.
Like Feta cheese.
That reminds me of a Frenchman I saw on TV describing aging cheese.. It smells like the feet of an angel
Ahh You can do better than that!
OK. Like Heineken ;-)
Broccoli too, Brussels Sprouts ... love ‘em.
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