The food in Oceania consists of a combination of Australian, New Zealand, Samoan, and the Marshall Islands food. Because of the vast ocean that surrounds Oceania, fish is commonly used in Oceanic recipes.

The major types can be roughly defined as East Asian with its origins in Imperial China and now encompassing modern Japan and the Korean peninsula; Southeast Asian which encompasses Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Viet Nam, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines; South Asian derived the states that once made up British India – Burma, India, [...]

COOK YOUR TOMATOES! Nutritionists tell us to eat most fruits and vegetables raw, or with as little processing as possible. However, tomatoes are different.Lycopene occurs naturally in crystalline form in tomatoes and apparently, this form of lycopene isn’t readily absorbed from the gut into the body. To make lycopene easier for the body to absorb, tomatoes need to be broken down and heated. That’s exactly what’s done in making products like tomato paste and sauce, and their derivatives like spaghetti and pizza sauces. Processing disrupts the cellular structure of the tomato, breaks the bonds between lycopene and other food constituents in the tomato, and promotes absorption of lycopene in the body.