anybody was vegetarian? Let's look at what they ate.

Today, we can easily preserve food by technical innovations like canning and freezing. however, this food preservation was a great problem for military and so significant challenge that Napoleon put a big price on the solution. So, how did Samurai solve this problem? the answer was related with food that they ate.

1. Rice

To Japanese, rice has been the staple food since long time ago and was the most popular food of all rations at that time. they enabled rice to preserve and bring out by frying and drying, and eat it as it was or eat it like risotto after soaking it in water when eating. 


2. Miso

In the U.S, miso is well-known as miso-soup but Japanese use it in various meals. Miso includes proteins, minerals and vitamins and supplements nutritions rice lacks. on the other hands, it's easy to ferment so was took as a ration by roasting and making a ball. By soaking in water, it also substitute for soup so was as popular as rice. 


3. Pickled plum

Pickled plum is plums pickled by vinegar and dried by the sun. Like pickles, it tastes quite sour and includes a lot of citric, whereas, it's a hard ration to rot and can be preserved for many days. Moreover, it's effective to disinfect and soldiers utilized it for disinfect drinking and wounds.


4. Dried persimmon

Dried persimmon are also suitable food as a ration. It includes polyphenol and vitamin C and has an effect to breaking off cold. Also, it has moderate sweetness and soldier might take it for dessert.


In those days without refrigerator and canning, Samurai solved the preservation problem by choosing appropriate food, and even though they didn't figure out the concept of "nutrition", they naturally took suitable food for working out. Maybe, human understand what they have to ingest instinctively even if they have no knowledge about nutrition.

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