CONTEST ALERT 👉: 7 DAYS WRITING SKILLS CHALLENGE, WRITE IN AT LEAST 5 DIFFERENT TOPICS IN THE NEXT 7 DAYS| 40 STEEM POOL REWARD|| Food || club5050 || 10% for @steem4nigeria by @nancygbemi

nancygbemi (63)Memberin Steem4Nigeria • 2 years ago (edited)

Greetings Steemians! Am so excited to be part of this contest 7dayswritingskillchallenge and I want to thank the organizer @steem4nigeria I will start with my first topic about Food let's get started.

WHAT IS FOOD

Food is a basic necessities that is needed for both plants and animals. It is any substance eaten to give nutrients and nutritional value, support for an organism. The nutrients food products are carbohydrates, proteins,fat,vitamin and mineral/water and the nutrients provide growth, energy for the body to perform activities and also function of the body like digesting food, respiration (breathing) keeping the immune system healthy and keeping it warm for healthy growth. Plants don't need to go insearch of food because they manufacture their food through the help of sunlight and that is photosynthesis because they have green pigment in their leave called chlorophyll, while animal(humans) moves insearch of food for survive and growth.
Man and woman collect food by agriculture and hunting.

FUNCTION OF FOOD

They are several function of food but the basic function of food is to satisfy hunger and other functions are :
Body Building:
Food help to build our bodies, protein are known as bodybuilding foods(meat, eggs,fish,milk ) are rich in high quality proteins, These food supply energy and enhances growth of an individual.
Providing Energy:
This is the major function of food to provide energy because energy is the ability to do work and our bodies needs the energy to sustain the processes for the continuations of life, recreation activities.
Regulatory Function:
Foods help in regulations of the control of water balance in the body, clotting of blood,removal of unwanted products from the body thats excretion,food regulates our heartbeat and also for the maintenance of our Body temperature.
Social function:
Food is part of culture, religious and social life it has a way of expressing love to people,in the aspect of culture various culture have their different kind of food and symbolic value and uniqueness too.
In the aspect of social life food is always present because most parties today can't do without serving food like rice,soup etc and food brings unity because most people tend to unite because there's food in that gathering.
In the aspect of religious,most religious uses fruit for symbolic value even in marriages, so food is very important to human endeavors.

FOOD CATEGORIES

Food are divided into basic categories like:
Fruit, meat & poultry fish, seafood, vegetable, eggs, legumes,seed, grains,nuts,and dairy foods.

FRUIT

Fruit are substance that boost our immune system by giving it vitamin of various kinds and mineral,they are high in fibers,it is gotten from tree, ripened ovaries and it is very sweet, edible too and various types of fruit are banana, orange,mango,cherry,apple, pineapple, watermelon etc it is advisable to eat fruit as appetizer before any meal and help in healthy growth and prevent diabetes,heart disease and Cancer.

MEAT & POULTRY

Majority of humans feed of meat and poultry while very few people are vegetarians, meat& poultry is the flesh of an animal used as food and meat can be roasted,fried and boiled.
Meat help to maintain healthy bones,hair, and blood. Chicken,turkey and red meat are highly rich in protein and the protein in meat are fastly digested.

FISH & SEAFOODS

Fish is also proteinous in nature and fish can be cooked in several ways like grilling, baking and frying some fish include catfish, mackerel, sardines etc
Seafood are crayfish,shrimp lobster crabsand prawns.

VEGETABLE, GRAINS & LEGUMES

Vegetable are gotten from plant which include flower,seeds,tubers, leave roots and stems.
Legumes are plant seeds like green beans and peas.
Grains are dry seed that is hard like rice, maize etc.

EGGS

Eggs is gotten from chicken and it is nutritious and advisable to eat at Least one egg per day for the adult and two for children.

DAIRY FOOD

Dairy foods are food with alot of vitamin and nutrients which are milk food gotten from milk are ice cream, yogurt, cheese and condensed.

TWO FOOD FROM NIGERIA

There are varieties of food eaten by Nigerian which are very nutritious but i will just list two which are;

Nigerian jollof Rice

Jollof rice is very tasty and rich in nutrients and it is mostly known and cooked almost of the tribe in Nigeria.

Nigerian Egusi Soup

Egusi soup is very easy to make and it is made with grinded melon seed, vegetable leave etc it is a very popular soup in Nigeria eaten with Eba and pounded yam.