Healthier food and snacks to choose in 2024

[snoop1130]

 

Healthy eating has been affected by years of inflation. The rising cost of living has forced many to be more frugal, which has meant cutting back on grocery bills and shopping for cheaper and usually less healthy.

 

Yet despite these limitations, most people have welcomed 2024 promise to themselves to eat healthier. ThaiiPBS World asked nutrition and food biotechnology expert Assoc Prof Chalat Santivarangkna, director of the Institute of Nutrition at Mahidol University, what he thinks we will be eating, drinking and snacking on the coming year.

 

The following are his predictions. director, the Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University

 

Caption: Cannabis businesses like this one in Bangkok’s Chinatown have sprung up all over the country. //Photo by Veena Thoopkrajae

 

Full story: Thai PBS 2024-01-11

 

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[johng]

23 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

what he thinks we will be eating, drinking and snacking on the coming year.

 

Yow vill eat the buds 

[StayinThailand2much]

Fruits and vegetables are very expensive now, not just in Thailand. Pondering where to save money; meat, dairy, snacks, or greens, fresh fruits and vegetables usually lose out when I go shopping.

 

By the way, looking at the picture; what does 'Cann-cha' have to do with healthy food? LOL

Edited January 11 by StayinThailand2much

[lordgrinz]

I find the healthy offering here to be hard to find, that's one of the biggest things I miss from back home in the states, at least for those of us who choose to eat healthy. Plus Thai's need to stop eating so much white rice, belly pork, and greasy fried foods dripping with oil.

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, lordgrinz said:

I find the healthy offering here to be hard to find, that's one of the biggest things I miss from back home in the states, at least for those of us who choose to eat healthy. Plus Thai's need to stop eating so much white rice, belly pork, and greasy fried foods dripping with oil.

What looks healthy and nutritious has been sprayed to death with chemicals.

Everything else has been deep fried in heavily refined and processed oil.

[loong]

9 hours ago, StayinThailand2much said:

Fruits and vegetables are very expensive now, not just in Thailand. Pondering where to save money; meat, dairy, snacks, or greens, fresh fruits and vegetables usually lose out when I go shopping.

 

By the way, looking at the picture; what does 'Cann-cha' have to do with healthy food? LOL

Fruits and vegetables are always expensive if you buy them in the supermarkets.

In the Thai markets fruit prices are pretty much seasonal. At the moment oranges start at 20 Baht/kilo.

Veg in the market can fluctuate from day to day, but mostly quite stable. Toms at the moment can be 50 Baht/kilo 1 day and 20 Baht the next.

Good size bundles of Chinese Kale are 10 Baht. Carrots are always cheap.

[lordgrinz]

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

What looks healthy and nutritious has been sprayed to death with chemicals.

Everything else has been deep fried in heavily refined and processed oil.

 

Believe me, I know, I remember an article in the BP when I came here in 2016, I believe it said 90% of tested Organic produce were covered in chemicals (some of which were illegal chemicals). 

[hotchilli]

57 minutes ago, lordgrinz said:

 

Believe me, I know, I remember an article in the BP when I came here in 2016, I believe it said 90% of tested Organic produce were covered in chemicals (some of which were illegal chemicals). 

I remember the FDA going to a Bangkok vegetable wholesale market and took samples o randomly test..

Almost everything was above limits and yes some with traces of banned chemicals.. 

Was anything done... NO..

Organic on the label means nothing in Thailand.