Diet In The Middle Ages
The Great Food of the Great Times
The diet in the Middle Ages contrasts to our modern day. Feasts and banquets were essential to a rich man in the Middle Ages. Nowadays, people do not appreciate their food as people did back then, our diet fits in with our fast paced lives. However, the diet was not all glorious; some eating habits were not as sanitary as ours or even as healthy. The diet in the middle ages was questionable, unhygienic, and specific to class. The diet standards were questionable in the middle ages. Fruits and vegetables had to be cooked to avoid sickness. “Beware of green sallettes and rawe frytes for they wyll make your soverayne seke.” The Boke of Kervynge, who warns us about the dangers of eating fruits and vegetables …show more content…
There was a new diet created in the 11th Century called the Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum. This diet came from a medical school in Salerno, Italy. Men with anger issues could not eat spicy foods as it can trigger their anger. Also, people would have onion juice for hair loss.
The diet was considered unhygienic, at least to our modern day world. Since all the fruits and vegetables were always cooked, the lack of vitamin C lead to scurvy. Fruits and vegetables were often eaten by the poor. This was more of a problem for the rich as the poor would eat their fruits and vegetables raw. The leftovers were soaked in bread and given to the poor. Nowadays this grease would be thrown out, but the people did not want to waste food. The manners for the rich at the banquet were no farting or picking fleas at the table. Now this is common sense and our manners are way more complex.
Even though the Middle Ages seem unhygienic, BBC News suggests that this kind of diet is healthier than our diets. The reason for this is that there is not as much sugar and starch consumed as it is nowadays, and there are many more fruits and vegetables. The Medieval had more caloric intake, but we have more fat intake in this time period. Simon Newman states that there was no clear caloric intake, and that the poor was healthier. This is because obesity was considered noble, so many aristocrats were
The diet in the Middle Ages contrasts to our modern day. Feasts and banquets were essential to a rich man in the Middle Ages. Nowadays, people do not appreciate their food as people did back then, our diet fits in with our fast paced lives. However, the diet was not all glorious; some eating habits were not as sanitary as ours or even as healthy. The diet in the middle ages was questionable, unhygienic, and specific to class. The diet standards were questionable in the middle ages. Fruits and vegetables had to be cooked to avoid sickness. “Beware of green sallettes and rawe frytes for they wyll make your soverayne seke.” The Boke of Kervynge, who warns us about the dangers of eating fruits and vegetables …show more content…
There was a new diet created in the 11th Century called the Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum. This diet came from a medical school in Salerno, Italy. Men with anger issues could not eat spicy foods as it can trigger their anger. Also, people would have onion juice for hair loss.
The diet was considered unhygienic, at least to our modern day world. Since all the fruits and vegetables were always cooked, the lack of vitamin C lead to scurvy. Fruits and vegetables were often eaten by the poor. This was more of a problem for the rich as the poor would eat their fruits and vegetables raw. The leftovers were soaked in bread and given to the poor. Nowadays this grease would be thrown out, but the people did not want to waste food. The manners for the rich at the banquet were no farting or picking fleas at the table. Now this is common sense and our manners are way more complex.
Even though the Middle Ages seem unhygienic, BBC News suggests that this kind of diet is healthier than our diets. The reason for this is that there is not as much sugar and starch consumed as it is nowadays, and there are many more fruits and vegetables. The Medieval had more caloric intake, but we have more fat intake in this time period. Simon Newman states that there was no clear caloric intake, and that the poor was healthier. This is because obesity was considered noble, so many aristocrats were