MARY ANN! /sarcasm
“...antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and immune-boosting characteristics, primarily due to its phenolic compounds, gingerol and shogaol...”
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I often wonder how much all these compounds hold up to cooking. A lot of studies, or at least their articles, don’t really clarify if they are studied in raw form, or cooked.
Mary Ann is more my type...
A long, long time ago, I would use Ginger Ale recovering from an illness that included nausea. Once I no longer would vomit with any intake, the Ginger Ale was a great way to settle an unhappy stomach. About 20 years ago, I decided, why not drink it when healthy. We now have raw ginger and one of those charge water systems, so we make our own.
“it may calm nausea from motion sickness,”
A few years ago, the Myth Busters guys conducted experiments on the best way to combat nausea from motion sickness — auto, sea sickness, roller coasters, etc. Ginger was the clear winner. Nothing else was even close.
I take ginger capsules with me when I cruise in case of sea sickness. Have never needed them, but they’re there if necessary.
Growing up, if you opened the fridge and saw ginger ale, you knew someone was sick.
Is ginger in the spice isle of the grocery store the raw ginger?
I hate sushi but had some with my daughter...and the rest of the family. The plate came, I grab something with my fingers and ate a bunch of it and about spit it out. My daughter laughed and said that was ginger, you don’t eat it that way... So much for my cultured life. Went to an Italian restaurant and the wife ordered polenta and I was asked if I’d like the same. I said I’m not eating placenta... another head shaking from the wife. I said it sounds close enough.
I’m a meat and potatoes, van,choc,straw ice cream and black coffee kind of guy. Having eaten local foods around the world is probably why. Even did balut on a bet in the Philippines... alcohol was involved.
Geez I’ve always been a Mary Ann guy!
If the family owned independent Chinese restaurant has my favorite: garlic and ginger chicken with steamed fresh vegetables and rice, does that mean it has an unimportant trace of ginger?
How would we consume another type such as powdered ginger or other forms in enough quantity?
Poor Tina Louise. She had to play the self-absorbed, high maintenance. manipulative movie star next to the sweet girl next door. She wasn’t built for island life but did her best. It could have been much worse. What if it was Winona Rider. And then. . . . later, what her husband did to her in “The Stepford Wives”!
Oh great now ginger prices are going to go up.
One thing to be warned about if you decide to go the ginger route: that first day or two don’t get too far away from the bathroom. There is a little bit of a... uh... cleanse that happens when you first start. You’ll be back to normal in by day 3 maybe 4. But the beginning is less than fun.
Its supposed to help with Prostate Cancer. (Something to research if interested.)
Sorry Charlie. Mary Ann all the way.
Another vote for her.
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