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So many people tell me that a Japanese breakfast is super healthy.

So in this video, I wanted to compare a typical Japanese and breakfast and compared to other breakfast is from around the world US, China, Germany and India.

Before I start, though probably worth mentioning that these examples are what people think of as typical for that country.

But obviously there are exceptions.

With so many different diocese days and ever changing eating habits, it doesn't apply to everyone.

But for all intents and purposes, and in order to make this video, I had to narrow down the typical breakfast for each country.

Also, if your country wasn't included, let me know what your typical breakfast is and how it's sex up to Japan and the other countries.

And one final note, I had to take some liberties on a few of the ingredients because they just weren't available at the local supermarket.

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That all said, Let's get our breakfast on a typical Japanese breakfast.

So when you first think of a traditional Japanese at breakfast, then you start off with rice and miso soup.

This is a fairly decent sized bowl.

This is actually it looks kind of small fits in my hand, but this is kind of like a man sighs a portion.

So the basics in the missus soup is usually have seaweed and tofu.

This one has a little bit of extra has fried tofu as well.

I mean, there's some onions in here, so this is not oh, which is a fermented soybean.

It has kind of like an interesting smell, but it is supposedly supposed to be really, really healthy for you, and with a grilled fish, you can get different types.

This one that I'm showing you right now is salmon.

But you can also get like different dried fish, so they're all very common and then also has another side.

You can get some pickled vegetables.

In this case, I have some pickled radish and pickled cucumbers, so This is kind of your minimum set breakfast.

You'll notice that everything comes in these little bowls and you can kind of mix and match.

Sometimes you can get like little tofu.

You could get Tomoko yucky.

You can kind of, like, mix it up and get like different combinations, But this is kind of like the minimum that you would have in a traditional Japanese breakfast overall concept with, I think a Japanese menu is you have to have kind of like a balanced diet.

Do you have your greens?

You have your proteins, you have your starch.

Also, wanna have something that's kind of easy on the stomach, so it doesn't weigh you down in the morning or throughout the day.

That's why you have, like, fermented beans.

That's why you have me so soup and surprising.

Or maybe not.

That, surprisingly, is you don't see a lot of fried food, so that's your traditional Japanese breakfast, which is going to serve as our baseline when we compare to other countries.

The American Breakfast Way.

Go with your I wouldn't say traditional American breakfast, but I think what you would consider maybe as a typical American breakfast, you have your eggs, you have your sausage and your bacon.

You have your hash browns, you have two pieces of toast and then with some butter on the side like this literally is all brown.

If you haven't noticed, like, the first thing I see is just a lot of brown and kind of pan fried foods.

In fact, I don't see any green here without even looking at the calories.

Feels like a very heavy meal that would kind of, like sit in your stomach for a while and there's just a lot of fried food.

So you have, like the hash browns that's fried on the pan you have the bacon that's fried in the bacon itself is really fatty.

You have the sausages that are quite fatty.

Usually when you have your eggs, which also pan fried.

I mean, this is a breakfast that I would love and enjoy.

I think for a Japanese person, this would be quite heavy.

Generally don't like to have all of this fried food, but you will notice.

These days, Japanese people will eat eggs.

They will eat bread lead sausages, but we'll probably have smaller portions in general.

Let's move on to the next breakfast.

The Chinese breakfast.

Okay, so this breakfast is eaten by 1.4 billion people, so it can't be bad, right?

So the first thing that strikes me is that this is a soup based breakfast.

The base itself is soy, and then it has a couple of different ingredients, like onions, and then they throw in some spicy chili oil.

There's some other vegetables in here, like this one has Pocket Chief in particular.

What's really cool is that it also comes with doughnut bread.

It's a fried bread.

The whole idea of it is you take the bread itself and you dip it in to the soup and then you eat it just like this.

Mhm.

So comparing it Teoh a Japanese breakfast.

You know, it's kind of has its balance.

You do have kind of like a healthy soup with a soy based, but then you have kind of like this fried doughnut bread, which is not so healthy.

So I feel like it's a little bit heavier than a Japanese breakfast, but a lot lighter than an American breakfast.

Another thing that probably point out is, even though this soup doesn't have any like meat inside of it or fish.

The soy base is a protein, so it kind of covers your base.

So you do have your starts.

You have your vegetables, you have your protein, so you know it's pretty balanced meal.

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That said, Bring on the next breakfast, the German breakfast.

Look at this platter.

The first thing that strikes me here is that again, you don't have any greens at all.

I'm sure there are people that eat greens like they have lettuce.

I think so.

What you'll find that's pretty standard is you'll find bread rolls.

You'll find cheeses you'll find, like different assortment kind of meat sausages, and you even have, like a boiled egg in the mix.

What's also kind of surprising is that for a German breakfast, it's typically served cold.

I think this is kind of for that run and gun.

Get your food, make it real quick, and then go so you don't want to spend a whole lot of time, you know, just wanna, like, grab it, eat it and go compared to Japan, obviously you'll see that there's a lot of kind of red meat here, but you don't typically find in the Japanese breakfast you do spined eggs, but usually you don't find a boiled egg.

But the biggest thing is that Japanese don't have a lot of cheese and dairy and their breakfast.

So that's one thing that kind of just super stands out.

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What do you want?

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Let's let me just kind of straighten this meat out a little bit.

E think this is pretty much kind of like the standard portion size.

It looks pretty standard, but I'm sure there's people that will eat less.

And sure, there's people that will lead more.

Let's move on to the next one.

The Indian breakfast.

So looks like this is what Indian people eat for breakfast.

Um, well, not all Indian people.

Apparently, it depends on where you live in India.

This specific breakfast is something that you would find it generally in the north.

They use a lot of like flatbreads.

This one is Chiappucci.

Apparently, it's very common for Indian people to eat curry for breakfast, lunch and dinner and like the first thing that I personally noticed is that you don't have any greens.

At least in this particular breakfast that I have, and your main carb is a flatbread.

You have curry, which is usually like, quite buttery and oily lots of spice.

I mean, it's nice because there's a lot of flavor.

This one in particular is really spicy.

Take a little E thanks E didn't want to eat it.

So comparing this breakfast back Thio Japanese breakfast that generally don't like something with a lot of oil, a lot of butter, a lot of spice and want something light for their breakfast.

So I think that's why you don't find curry on a typical Japanese at breakfast.

This bread is quite healthy, and it's like a fairly basic bread.

There's not a lot of sugar, a lot of butter or anything that is, you know, what would be considered unhealthy.

I mean, compared to Rice, I don't think it's that much different.

I think just rice is just more common in Japan, and I'm sure there's, like, all different sorts of curry.

But the fact that it's curry and look like a flatbread and then sometimes with rice, pretty interesting breakfast, lunch and dinner.

So what do you think was the healthiest breakfast?

Were there any surprises?

Let me know in the comments, and here's the calories side by side, given the portions.

So based on the calories alone, India comes in first, with the lowest calories, followed by China and then Japan coming in third and surprise, surprise us killing that calorie count.

But calories alone probably don't tell the whole story.

Looking at a world chart ranking obesity among adults based on the country's population shows the United States ranked the 12th highest, with 36.2% of its adults considered obese.

Germany ranking 79th in the world, China at 169th place at 6.2%.

Japan ranking at 186.

And finally, India, ranking at 189th place.

Pretty interesting, given our results from breakfast.

Personally, I love the hardiness of the American breakfast, the fried goodness of a Chinese breakfast, three easiness of a German breakfast and all the flavors in Indian breakfast.

But it seems like the Japanese breakfast was the most balanced.

For example, you have the miso soup and the minerals from the seaweed, the probiotics and the fermented soybeans, like greens, fish from some additional protein and finally, a small bowl of rice.

It's not hard to see why.

Japanese say it's easy on the stomach.

So overall, the variety of dishes and the small portions keeping the calories on a moderate level seem to make a Japanese breakfast.

Healthy choice.

But what do you think?

Anyway?

I hope that sheds a little bit more light on how healthy a Japanese breakfast is and how it compares to other countries.

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