Health Benefits of Petai

After doing my first petai dish, I have done some research on how good petai (or smelly beans) is, and so here are the awesome health benefits of petai...

Health benefits of Petai

Petai fruit not just offer power, but in addition capable to avoid as well as defeat numerous health problems and conditions. In comparison apples, petai has got protein Four times more, carbohydrates over double the amount, 3 times the phosphorus, 5 times the vitamin A and also iron, and two times as many vitamins along with other minerals.

A number of the health improvements are highlighted below

1. Depression

In accordance with a current study carried out by MIND amongst individuals struggling with depressive disorders, numerous felt far better after consuming petai. It is because petai include tryptophan, a kind of protein which the body changes into serotonin, recognized to cause you to relax, enhance your mood and usually cause you to feel more comfortable.

2. PMS (premenstrual syndrome)

Ignore the pills – consume petai. The vitamin B6 it includes manages blood sugar levels, which could impact your mood.

3. Anemia

Loaded with iron, petai can easily encourage the creation of hemoglobin within the blood and thus assists in cases of anemia.

4. Blood Pressure

This excellent exotic bean is incredibly loaded with potassium but lower in salt, which makes it ideal to conquer blood pressure level. So much in fact, the US Food and Drug Administration have recently permitted the petai industry to create official claims for the fruit’s capability to prevent blood pressure level and also heart stroke.

5. Brain Power

Research has revealed that the potassium-packed fruit might help learning by causing students much more alert as well as increase memory.

6. Constipation

Loaded with fiber, which includes petai within the diet might help recover normal bowel action, assisting to conquer the issue without making use of laxatives.

7. Hangovers

One of many fastest methods for treating a hangover is usually to create a petai milkshake, sweetened along with honey. The petai calms the stomach as well as, with the aid of the honey, accumulates exhausted blood sugar levels, whilst the milk calms as well as re-hydrates your whole body.

8. Heartburn

Petai features a all-natural antacid effect within the body, so when you have problems with heartburn, try to consume petai for calming relief.

9. Morning Sickness

Eating petai in between meals keeps blood glucose levels up and prevent morning sickness in females.

10. Mosquito bites

Just before reaching for the insect bite cream, try out massaging the affected region using the interior of the petai skin. Many individuals think it is surprisingly effective at decreasing swelling as well as discomfort.

11. Nerves

Petai has elevated levels of B vitamins which help relaxed the central nervous system.

12. Overweight

Studies in the Institute of Psychology in Austria discovered pressure at the job results in gorging on comfort food just like chocolate and crisps. Checking out 5,000 hospital people, scientists discovered the most overweight were more prone to be in high-pressure jobs. The report determined that, to prevent panic-induced craving for food, we have to manage our blood glucose levels by eating high carbohydrate foods each 2 hours to maintain levels constant.

13. Ulcers

Petai is utilized as the dietary food towards intestinal disorders due to the soft texture as well as smoothness. It’s the only raw fruit that may be consumed without distress in long-term cases. Additionally, it neutralizes level of acidity and decreases irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

14. Temperature control

A number of other cultures observe petai like a “cooling” bean that may reduce both emotional and physical temperature of pregnant women. In Holland, as an example, expectant women consume petai to make sure their baby is born having a cool temperature.

15. Smoking

Petai may also help individuals attempting to quit smoking. The B6, B12 they include, along with the potassium and magnesium present in them, assist the body get over the end results of nicotine withdrawal.

16. Stress

Potassium is an important mineral, which will help stabilize the heart beat, sends oxygen towards the brain and also manages the human body’s water balance. When we’re anxious, our metabolic rate increases, therefore decreasing our potassium levels. These may be rebalanced with the aid of a high-potassium petai snack.

17. Strokes

According to research through the New England Journal of Medicine discovered that every day practice of consuming petai capable to prevent death from strokes by 40 %.

18. Warts

All those interested in all-natural alternatives swear that when you need to destroy a wart, have a little bit of petai and put it on the wart. Very carefully support the petai in position using a plaster or even surgical tape!

19. Healthy eyes and improve concentration

Petai include vitamin A quite higher at 200 IU per 100 mg. As is recognized, vitamin A very theraputic for sustaining healthy corneas. Potassium within the banana can also improve concentration and also the ability of the brain so great to help those who have trouble to learn.

20. Improving digestion

Fiber is additionally found in numerous petai. Fiber or even fibers handy help digestion of food. For anybody who frequently has digestive problems just like constipation, consuming petai may help reduce your suffering. Petai in addition have a natural antacid effect within the body. If you feel nausea and fullness from consuming too much, petai can help to eliminate the pain sensation.

21. Ulcers

This particular fruit can reduce the effects of acidity and also decreases irritation by coating the lining of the stomach.

22. Hangovers

Petai is combined with honey and milk, this particular milkshakes made is considered to help to ease hangover gone through by an individual due to this herb can easily enhance blood glucose levels whilst the milk is wonderful for calming as well as re-fix the fluid level within the body.

23. Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

(a chaotic emotional illness). In case you evaluate it along with apples, Parkia speciosa has got Four times much more protein, two times the carbohydrate, 3 times the phosphorus, 5 times the vitamin A as well as iron, and two times the other minerals and vitamins. Parkia speciosa is additionally abundant with potassium. Therefore like when the Parkia speciosa nicknamed “A Parkia speciosa per day keeps the doctor away”.

More about Petai

To be consumed then parkia speciosa or even petai needs to be peeled first, and after peeled,  petai or even parkia speciosa seeds normally can be ingested directly, boiled, or even baked, and petai seed is additionally broadly ingested by combined with various other foods just like combined with , chili, garlic, dried shrimp, fish, duck, vegetables, and so on.

Petai features a sharp odor mainly because it consists of certain amino acids, and for that reason earned the nickname petai beans and also the smell within the mouth and body and in addition supplies a strong odor of urine that may give effect to 2 days after consuming petai, and also this complex carbohydrate within the parkia speciosa may cause a sharp-smelling fart too.

History of Petai

The nationality of Petai can be extremely hard to figure out in cases that regional limitations alter as time passes, leaving behind the initial nationality a mysterious. The initial ethnicity of Petai might be hard to figure out as a consequence of whether the title came about naturally as well as individually in a variety of locales; e.g. in the matter of family names which come from professions, which could come in several locations individually (like the last name “Fisher” which has been provided to fishermen).

Danger

If ingested too much, petai can harm the kidneys and also the substance will harm the kidney filter. This is due to the high content of amino acids within Petai. Before you decide to cook the petai, ensure that you divide the bean into two using a paring knife since there are vulnerable to worms burrowing their way into the heart of the petai as you have seen through the photos above. In the cupful, most likely get about 6 petais along with worms inside. It’s a pain however it sure beats biting in a worm.

我下厨的日记 Diary of my homecooked food (25 and 26 July)

After much thoughts into what to prepare and stuff, a weekend of cooking and cooking just past....!

Saturday, Charis and Yik Ming came over and coz we were going to have durian party for dinner, we decided to have a simple early dinner at 4pm.

For the happening homemade roast pork belly, I got the pork belly from wet market - then blanch it and marinate with five spices salt and lemon overnight. On Saturday itself, it was 1whole hour of airfrying and then chewing of the crispy skin and succulent meat...

In addition, I did asparagus wrapped in bacon and also stirfry guotiao (1 packet for four of us to share!)

On Sunday, let the hubby sleepy in while I went to prepare beef stew. It was around 2hrs of stewing, after browning the beef and onions, then throwing in potatoes and carrots.

Though it was my first time, and after reading so many recipes online, I decided to do it my own way, I was surprised that the hubby likes it alot. Quite disappointed though, that the beef was too tough (probably coz I had kept in the freezer for 2weeks).

Cassie and Huifang came for dinner and so I made the tomyam chicken cheese balls that Cassie requested.

A pity the cheese oozed out of some of the balls... but, on the whole, they tasted alright =)

Also did stirfry kailan, bak kut teh soup as well as prawn omelette. Haha will think of more "child-friendly" food for 小朋友 for future visitations!

Gatherings. Meet-ups. Catch-ups.

One of those weekends when we spend alot of time meeting up with friends and catching up with those we haven't met for awhile ~ really fulfilling and super awesome!

Friday 24 July - Drinks and snacks at Brotzeit with the Jurong SHG peeps
Saturday 25 July - Lunner with Charis and Yik Ming at home with hubby, followed by Durian Party with neighbours
Sunday 26 July - Dinner with Cassie and Hui Fang at home with hubby

Here are some photos collage for sharing:

Lots of laughing and silly chats over drinks at Brotzeit

Dinner at home for Charis and Yik Ming

Camwhoring...

Durian Party with neighbours

Dinner at home for Cassie and Huifang

Though the weekend was happening, we managed to sneak rest and sufficient sleep to recuperate. It was really great to catch up with friends! Definitely healthy to stay happy always! Live Long, Laugh Loudly!

我下厨的日记 Diary of my homecooked food (22 and 24 July)

Some random idea to start using my pretty 50mm lens to take pics of the simple stuff I cook... I think simple is subjective. Coz to my mum, I do fanciful dishes while to my friends, my food look pretty...

To me, most important is 1) people who eat what I cook must enjoy 2) it should not be complicated for me to cook... hahaha

Last Wednesday, I took up a personal challenge to cook petai (after finding out the whole long list of its health benefits) even though it is something hubby hates alot. The smelly beans are really smelly, and I still vaguely smell it in my fridge now.

After doing a simple survey on Facebook, it was concluded that sambal is the only way to cook it. And coz the hubby dislikes petai, I decided to add in minced pork and lean meat to add some sweetness in and also provide an option for him to throw each petai into his mouth with some meat. In the end, he not only take each piece of petai with some meat, he also added in alot of rice to neutralise the taste! Well, after the meal, I actually convinced him to let me cook it once a month!

In addition, I tried a new dish after reading online about different recipes using the airfryer. It was stuffing minced pork in taupok skins (flipped over). I also added in chopped mushrooms for added flavour.

Friday morning, coz I wanted to finish the puff pastry in the freezer as well as the bottle of nutella, I woke up extra early to prepare mini nutella croissants for hubby to bring to work.

Chose prettier ones for him coz some parts of the pastry were hardened and broke while folding.

Coz we went drinking with friends on Friday night, we sort of overslept and did not get much time for breakfast on Saturday. So I took the frozen prata bought from NTUC and wrapped them around sausages and cheese.

With the soft and fluffy prata, yummy sausage and cheese oozing out, it was really heavenly!

Hari Raya long weekend

This is one of the perks of being in a multi-racial country - where you get to enjoy public holidays on festivals you don't even celebrate...

On Friday, had arranged for brunch with family. We went Legendary Hong Kong at jurong point and were really glad to avoid the crowd by reaching before 10.30am. When we left at almost 12, the queue outside was really long!

Classic wefie shot with mum, Phyllis, dear and two lovely nieces

After lunch, we went shopping at Big Box for hob, hood and oven (coz parents are going to reno their apartment)

We left before 2pm to make our way to Rendezvous Hotel for high tea with pals. Had dine at Straits Cafe many years ago so had suggested that to them when deciding where to go to.

Left (from front): me, Danlin, Apple and her sister
Right (from front): Elson, dear, Dennie, Wenmei and Zhiwei
*plus children*

Spent 2hours eating non-stop and were really super full thereafter. Since we had nothing on, we went window shopping at PS and got most of our buys from Uniqlo and Daiso. I was also super impressed with the beef selection at Cold Storage.

Saturday was SHG day but I was feeling lazy so stayed home until 2plus then went over for the activity. After volunteer work, we went for a simple dinner with "whoever we can grab". Had zichar at the coffeeshop nearby. It was pretty good food - but we ended up too full for durian.

Still ended up having durian (but smaller scale) - just three of us

Saturday was not over yet. After Phyllis came over, we shared another box of durians, watched movies on TV, grilled some midjoint wings and also finished a pack of seaweed sausages - all before we go to bed!

Dear and I went for a short swim on Sunday morning before going off to shop for kitchen and toilet accessories with parents and Phyllis. Late lunch at this Sin Fong Restaurant which had a really good kuay chap stall.

Everybody was exhausted and thus, we went home to rest. Dear and I couldn't really nap and so we went for dinner at 6plus and coz I craved for Thai food, we went downstairs to try the Thai "zichar".

Ordered three dishes - baby kailan with roast pork (I like it very much, the taste was good but the roast pork abit too hard), minced chicken with basil leaves (well done though it did not have enough taste) and tomyam clear soup (super duper spicy). Took pic of the chilli sauce coz it was really nice!

Went home to watch Wishing Stairs and Scary Movie V before going to bed. 

Concluded that this long weekend is really relaxing and we had a good break in midst of meeting family and friends, feasting and playing ~ looking forward to more of such weekends! 

My Love for Mushrooms

Yes I have a strange love for mushrooms - shitake, portobello, enoki, shimeji, oyster, king oyster, button etc etc... I eat all kinds of (edible) mushrooms and enjoy cooking them too! Most of the time, I have at least one kind of mushrooms in my fridge.

Only learnt it few months ago, that to make stuffed portobello mushrooms, you will need to remove the stem and "gills" of the mushroom. This gives space and I can stuff lotsa minced pork inside. The juice that ooze out is a combo of the pork and mushroom - really heavenly!

The above is hubby's favourite - the fillings are just mince pork marinated in oyster sauce, sesame oil and pepper (please don't ask me how much of each, coz I go by feeling each time)

The above is a slightly different variation - the mushrooms are stuffed with grated cheese and chopped ham.

And the above has no meat - it is just grated cheese and onions. Still, they tasted awesome!

See the dish in the centre? This time round, I added grated cheese in the minced pork (which I marinated the night before)

The health benefits of mushrooms include relief from high cholesterol levels, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and diabetes. It also helps in weight loss, and increases the strength of your immune system.

They truly can make you bigger and protect you against diseases and infections, as they are full of proteins, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, antibiotics and antioxidants.

Do eat more mushrooms today!

我下厨的日记 Diary of my homecooked food

Besides zero monosodium glutamate (MSG), less oil and salt - my homecooked food is rather simple, nothing fanciful and I really try to make them healthy (once in awhile adding in some happening and sinful yet 幸福 food)

Here are some snippets of our latest dinners at home.

Experimented with bacon wrapped asparagus, with the help of my best assistant (Philips Air Fryer), and got alot of positive feedback from the hubby who loves unhealthy food. Haha...

First, I cut the huge asparagus in halves, then wrap half a bacon around each (had wanted to make it bite-size)

Then it went into the airfryer and grilled for 8mins at 180deg (to make sure all was cooked)

Added another 5mins at 200deg (so the bacon will be brown and slightly crispy)

It is definitely a very easy recipe - hassle-free and so fast to prepare!

As it was an impromptu dinner on Tuesday, there was no soup and everything was simple - steamed eggs with minced pork, stiryfry cabagge and grilled cheese with bacon

It is really a bliss to cook for others and much happier to see them enjoying the food.

For more photos, you may visit my facebook album =)

Our KL Escapade (4 to 6 July 2015) - Part 3 (Sunway Lagoon)

As mentioned previously, I did not bring my camera along (for fear of dropping or losing it). Thus this post is mainly words and some pics I grabbed from random people online...

We took the monorail from Bukit Bintang all the way to KL Sentral only to realise that there was no interchange there, and we had to take the monorail back to Hang Tuah (yes there is an interchange there, and only 2 stops from Bukit Bintang) to change to Kelana Jaya line. The whole train ride (RM4.70 per pax) would have taken us probably 30mins or so, followed by a 10mins bus ride - U623 (RM1 per pax) from Kelana Jaya. Not sure how many stops (because there were random people boarding the bus from the roadside, thus I have no idea which are the real ones) but we alighted right in front of Sunway Pyramid. The mall is so huge that nobody should miss it!

No outside food in Sunway Lagoon, so we bought bread and ate it outside the entrance. The whole park is really huge, and we felt that spending RM135 (used a 10% discount coupon from a travel brochure) which is around SGD48.56 (based on the exchange rate of 2.78) for 5 parks is really worth it!

Here is the layout of the 5 parks (if anybody needs it) - Map of Sunway Lagoon

Since our main intention was to go to the Water Park, we immediately went to change into our swimwear. Do note that they go cashless in the whole theme park - including lockers, rental of equipment like floats and surfboards, as well as merchandise and F&B. You may reload cash into your wrist strap's barcode and any balance will be refunded at the exit area.

Impressed with myself for choosing the Ramadan period to visit Sunway Lagoon, I was really glad to see no queues everywhere! It was a breeze to do all the rides...

To start off, we went for the 5D Waterplexx but were both disappointed as there was no thrill at all. It was just water and water splashed onto us, with aircon blowing at full blast.

We did the African Python - which comes with three different slides (yes you need to queue all over if you are done with one and would like to proceed to the next). You could choose the "all covered up tunnel", "all exposed open-top slide" or the "half half" which is a combo of both.

The Wave Pool was the place we chilled at, every now and then. Thank goodness it was not crowded at all and we had our own personal space all the time.

Since both of us had no courage to go onto the Vuvuzela, we skipped that. Last but not least, we did the Congo Challenge, which scared the hell out of me when I slided down on my own and felt my heart plunge down! I was praying that it will end soon! hahaha...

We also did kayaking, in a very relaxed manner, on the lake... Kayak is part of the Extreme Park, but honestly, it was not extreme at all! Most of the stuff at Extreme Park came with additional fee so we did not do them.

Besides Extreme Park, we spent the most time at Amusement Park. There, I did another terrifying thing - crossing the 428m long Suspension Bridge! (It really felt like forever...) Pretty proud of myself for completing it!

The Wagon Wheel was located at an elevated ground, but it was not scary to me (probably coz I had already done the Suspension Bridge before that). But, I really love ferris wheel so I still enjoyed it.

I also enjoyed the Grand Canyon River Rapids where it was just the two of us, going through the rapids with waterfalls and splashing water all over.

Hubby was super impressed with the Wildlife Park, which he declined to enter initially (thinking it was something boring, with just animals). For me, it was the excitement to see the birds flying everywhere! Whether you are an adult or going there with children, please visit the Wildlife Park. It is super neat!

As we were both drained and aching all over, we went to shower at around 4plus and eventually left the theme park at 5.20pm. A pity we had no more energy to be scared at the Scream Park, but we will visit someday... definitely!

Took a cab back to Bukit Bintang, from Sunway Pyramid and it cost us RM39 for 20mins ride. Too expensive for me - hmmm if we had enough strength and willpower, we will definitely take the public transport.