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The Great Natto Diet Rush: The sticky road to weight loss (maybe). Maki Itoh discusses natto's sudden trendiness in Japan as a potential weight loss wonder food—somewhat bizarre news when you consider that natto is a very stinky dish of cooked, fermented soybeans, the kind of food that even the Japanese will refer to as "an acquired taste".
(Masaharu Morimoto won the Iron Chef Natto Battle with an array of dishes that included a dessert of "sweetened natto soaked in Coca Cola and served in coconut milk", which to be frank, I find terrifying. Brave man to make it, but trusting judges to eat it!)
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5 Comments:
I am not sure if I am more scared of EATING it or the flatulance that would follow!
Sindy at 12:31PM on 02/01/07
Hee!
lia at 2:32PM on 02/01/07
OMG. Natto. I finally tried some early last year. It took numerous tries to get the sushi chef at my favorite place to make me a natto roll. He'd always threatened/promised to make me one, but when I'd tell him to go ahead, he'd wave me off. "You won't like it. Even Japanese people have trouble."
I've only ever had it in a sushi roll, but it wasn't nearly as frightening as I thought it would be.
Adam Kuban at 4:49PM on 02/01/07
OMG, that looks like mucilage and something that has been previously eaten. I don't think I can go there.
Calichef at 7:09PM on 02/03/07
I love natto! I am almost drooling right now. Might have to do with the fact that it's almost lunch-time and I'm hungry anyway though. But I do love natto.
22209 at 10:57AM on 02/06/07