#5 The Art of Cooking
The usual methods of cooking Japanese food includes stewing, grilling, steaming, or frying in a special pan with minimal oil. It ensures that maximum nutritional quotient is retained in the vegetables.
Further, they avoid putting a lot of spices and instead keep their dish very light!
#4 The Small Dishes
This is the most important factor! Eating is sort of a ritual in Japan, they eat slowly, cutting smaller pieces and in a very relaxed way unlike many of us who eat in haste! Furthermore, they take only one serving and their plates are very small. So, there's an impossible chance of overeating!
#3 Rice replaces Breads
While the major component of our food is bread, Japanese majorly eat rice! They do not consume bread and the rice is also cooked without butter or salt. Hence, the absence of the fatty foods keeps them slim
#2 Breakfast is the main meal
It has been often said that the breakfast should be the major meal of the day! Japanese follow exactly the same trend! Their breakfast is the most significant meal of the day and it involves fish, rice, omelets, miso soup, a soy dish with greens, seaweeds, and tea.
#1 The Desserts
Desserts are really a very rare occasion in Japanese food! They do not consume as much of sugar as we do! There's no butter and cheese in the bread and cakes! Even their ice cream is made up of rice. Even their desserts are low fat and low sugar!
