The Most popular and The Cheapest Food

The Most popular and The Cheapest Food

Introduction Cilok is becoming more and more popular throughout Indonesia.

 It is The Most popular and The Cheapest Food. it is prepared of starch or cassava flour which is easily produced in this country. Starch belongs to carbohydrates. It is a component of diet along with protein, fat, minerals and vitamins. Starch is energy source for human body metabolism.

Starch is nutrition to generate human activity. Without carbohydrate in a diet man will feel lame and less energy in performing his activities. Lately, the recipe of preparing cilok is improved with enriching it with fish meal to add the important component of protein making it more delicious and healthier.

 That is why, the food which is initially popular in the low income community, now it is also becoming the choice of supplement food of better income community as workers of prestigious corporations and students of health and of medicine faculties of university. Pupil of Elementary School are buying cilok.

Below is not cilok but another starch but fried.

 New Coming and Popular Food In the neighbor countries of Indonesia as Singapore, Malaysia and even Australia ?. There is easily to find Indonesia restaurant serving famous and delicious beef prepared with tick spices called rendang. People like rendang because it is prepared of meet (protein) with palatable taste and highly nutrition characteristic. People is better informed that protein is important for body development.

 But other story of cilok which is prepared of carbohydrate, and the carbohydrate is of cassava starch. Cassava starch flour is inferior to wheat or rice flours. Wheat flour is imported, Indonesian land and climate are not suitable for wheat cultivation. Wheat flour is expensive in this country, it is considered as the first quality flour. Next quality or the second best quality is rice (paddy) flour. Rice is the staple food for Indonesia.

Farmers grow rice plant at least twice a year. Indonesia produces much rice, but sometimes Indonesian government has to import rice in case the harvest partly failed to get the production target. And the third is starch (cassava) flour. Starch is the cheapest among the rice and wheat flours. People will feel less pride when consume cassava tuber and so the food made of the starch.

Ok,  it is adapted for new developing and not so rich countries where carbohydrate is the most consumed food The Most popular and The Cheapest Food 

 However, why cilok that is derivative of cassava is becoming popular. At least there are 3 reasons :

1. Sweet. Starch or carbohydrates has characteristic of sweet in taste when it is chewed in the mouth after mixed with digestive saliva enzyme.

 2. Much Cheaper. Cassava is easily cultivated plant, so the starch is much produced in this country. Starch is easily found in the traditional market with cheap in price, and affordable by most Indonesian people which are low income. Pupil of elementary and secondary schools, and less-paid workers communities are the first communities made cilok is existed and now is becoming established as menu of most Indonesian.

3. Nutrient Enriched Cilok. Cooker is creatively formulating new components enriching its nutrition as adding the fish meal into cilok formulation. This protein component contained in cilok causing many people of different levels of economic are fond of cilok. Cilok is known to be a popular food only recently.

The name is akroname of West Javanese (Sundanese) words “aci dicolok” means noodle of starch stuck with pointed little bamboo stick. The stick is the same function as fork. Dough of cilok made of starch flour, salt, fish meal (if any), and water and is formed a round like ball, smaller than golf ball. The raw ball is steamed in steamer pan.


Ripe cilok is served with sauces prepared of spices, tomato, sugar, salt. This sauces is showered on the ripe cilok. Cassava starch is high energy source nutrition. Cassava is grouped as tuber plant of higher carbohydrate quality compared to taros or sweet potato.

However it is lower than the quality of potato. Farmers have recognized there are some species of cassava tuber that bitter in taste, containing of high percentage of cyanide acid (HCN). HCN is poisonous for human and mammal animal (forest fig and rat).

These animals have also recognized the species of cassava plant causing death if it is consumed. No animal will eat this bitter cassava tuber. The bitter cassava species contain more percentage of starch that it is better for being planted and its tuber is processed for producing starch. The HCN contents was expelled ( drained off) during processing of the starch. That is why the starch produced is not taste bitter any more and it is safe to consume..

 Enriched cilok contains more nutrients. it is more than just a carbohydrates. More over cilok is with sauces of nutritious quality as tomato, pepper, salt, sugar, and other spices, and protein containing sources as ketchup (made of soybean), and fish meal. With addition of fish meal to cilok recipe, it means cilok nutrition contents is enriched with protein.

 That is why, higher income employees and youngers communities are eager to consume cilok. The comsumers of cilok are now not only those of the lower income or the have not community, but the better earning and the elite students of medicine are queeing to buy cilok

Figure 1. Student of College of Nutrition of Malang (East Java) is campaigning nutritious

Cilok in the commemoration of National Nutrition Days on 25 January 2015. Student are buying cilok in front of their campus. Cilok Consumers. Cilok sellers (which is also the cooker) selling in elementary school of rural area are prepared the sauces as simple as possible, because the buyer is elementary and yunior secondary are student of less money provided by their parent in a very limited sum.

While cilok seller selling in area of high income employee as in business office, in university, in public service offices, and hotels they will prepare sauces cilok in a very high quality. And the price is higher then that made by seller who sell cilok in the former community.

 Cassave is now in its place in the menu of Indonesian food as it was ever exist in time when Indonesian in the era before the finding of oil wells drilled and Indonesia belongs to Organization of Oil Exporting Countries (OPEC). When Indonesian net oil exporting,

 Indonesian was experiencing welfare, they had breakfast with bread and chees, and milk, and the were forgetting food made of cassava. And after Indonesia was struck with economic turmoil and the country is no more net exporting oil countries.

Cilok is growing  the Most popular and The Cheapest Food.

This  derivative Cassava foods as enriched cilok offers price of affordable to all level of economic strata. and it is prospective to be popular in developing countries.


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Wholesome Food (Four is Healthy, Five is Perfect)

Wholesome Food (Four is Healthy, Five is Perfect)

Health aspects is the desire of all people. People want to get a healthy body by eating wholesome food that is good enough volume and nutritional value. Motto “four is healthy, five is perfect” is the guide of nutritionist and health extention workers and educators as a the objectives to be achieved by us. Four is Healthy and five is perfect food comprises of commonly eaten foods, including

1 Staple Food
Staple foods as a source of energy for the body to be able to indulge every day as : rice, corn, potatoes, wheat / wheat flour, tapioca flour, cassava and other tubers

. 2. Protein
Other dishes to serve with staple food to meet the needs of builder substances in the body. For example, the egg, tahu, tempeh, fish, meat, and others.

3.Vegetables
Vegetables in the food has a function to meet the needs of minerals, regulating substances on the body. As Spinach, Swamp Cabbage, tomatoes, lettuce, cassava leaves, eggplant, peppers, beans, cabbage squashed, squash, and other

4. Fruits
Such as vegetables, fruits in food has a function to meet the needs of regulatory substances in the body. For example, the Guava, stowberi, apple, papaya guava, mangosteen, passion fruit, persimmon, salak, durian, and other

5. Milk
To complete and no compulsory or mandatory us to drink it. But there is no harm if we drink milk after eating, because it contains a wide variety of mineral substances that are useful and good for our bodies.
Sometimes health considerations are different for each person, and healthy aspects of a nation different from other nations.

The Englishman claimed. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away", these wise words interpreted into "four healthy and five perfect". In the Indonesian record four healthy foods are foods containing carbohydrates, proteins, fats, and minerals. And five perfect interpreted with a glass of milk.
British people interpret the five perfect with a glass of milk not an apples. Indeed they do, because they are not consume menu as Asian , the meat and protein-laden as milk or cheese as wholesome food.

Food Containing Harmful Fat

Food Containing 
Harmful Fat


Fat is a nutrient that tastes delicious. The food will be delicious when added fat, for example, a piece of bread will taste more delicious when spread with butter. Especially if the buttered bread plus milk, bread wah... definitely will quickly get into the throat and immediately up.

But remember this fat is often accused of causing a variety of diseases that occur in the body health. "Healthy Foods Will Make Healthier Body", this is one phrase that is not going to debate about the truth. Even so, sometimes we are still confused about the various types of foods that have high nutritional as well as nourish the body. We will be very easy to find and buy a variety of foods in modern times. In fact, there are certain foods that will worsen the health of your body. This is because, the food contains trans fats in it. So, what are the foods that contain trans fats favors the harmful fat.

Fat was accused cause obessity , the cause of coronary heart disease, and other diseases. Trans fat is a dangerous type of fat contained in a certain type of food. Trans fats can raise levels of bad cholesterol in the blood, increasing the risk of inflammation in the body as well as lowering the amount of good cholesterol in your body. So that trans fats are potentially very great harm to the health of your heart. Begin to understand and avoid variety of foods that contain trans fats can save our souls early. Health tips, following are delicious foods that contain trans fats are:

1 Beef. In fact, beef turns out to have some trans fat in it. Thus, limiting the consumption of beef or a variety of foods are made from beef will avoid the dangers of trans fats that enter your body

. 2 Food fried in the same oil used repeatedly in frying your favorite foods. Use the same oil repeatedly for frying foods will result in the food contains trans fat.

3 Margarine and Butter. Both types of these foods also have some trans fat content. For this reason, limit or avoid many foods that contain trans fats are absolutely necessary to improve and maintain the health of your body

. 4 Fat contained in the ice cream will certainly tempt everyone's tongue. However, the ice cream turned out to contain up to 0.5 grams of trans fat per portion, so, minimize  consumption of ice cream is a step that can be taken.

5. Various Types of Frozen baked Food. Many once found a variety of foods through the roasting process is then frozen to make it more durable. These foods also contain trans fats that are harmful fat to your body.

6 Assorted Biscuits. Type of food shaped biscuit has some trans fat in it. However, not all food products including biscuits contain trans fats, then from that carefully read the label in its packaging

. 7 Fats are also contained in popcorn are made from corn is actually healthy for your body. However popcorn that has been presented in the form of packaging turned out to contain some trans fats are not good for your health.

What is your opinion ?, when docter recommend you to stop comsume the delicious fat, while your body weight increasing.

Carbohydrate is Energy and Essential Food

Carbohydrate is Energy 
and Essential Food

Carbohydrates are the food nutrients needed for the body to maintain its metabolism. Carbohydrates are a source of energy.Our body requires this nutrient. After 6 or 8 hours, our body feels weak because of carbohydrate consumed is running out to move the muscles. To restore the necessary energy is reqired new supply the input of carbohydrate.

Sources of carbohydrates the essential food can be divided into three kinds;, the first is the source of carbohydrates derived from the fibrous foods fruits and vegetables, then simple carbohydrate derived from sugar consumption and the latter is a complex carbohydrate derived from rice, potatoes, corn , bread, and others.   Sugar alcohol is an alcohol form of monosaccharides.  Oligosaccharides are short chains of sugar formed by galactose, glucose, and fructose.
Miscellaneous class of Carbohydrates
Carbohydrates are important in nutrition, It is divided into 2 categories, namely simple carbohydrates and complex carbohydrates. Indeed, all types of carbohydrates consist of simple carbohydrates or simple sugars; complex carbohydrates have more than 2 units of simple sugars in the molecule simple carbohydrates.

Simple carbohydrates consist of:
Monosaccharides which consists of an iron atom C the same amount with water molecules,
namely [〖C_6 (H_2 O)〗 _ 6] and [〖C_5 (H_2 O)〗 _ 5]
Disaccharide consisting of two monosaccharides bond where for every 12 C atoms there are 11 water molecules [C_12 (H_2 O) 11]

. Resources which become carbohydrates are grains (wheat and rice) or cereal, tubers (potato, cassava, sweet potato), corn, dried beans, nuts, and sugar. Produced from carbohydrate sources is the noodles. rice noodles, bread, starchy, jam, syrup, and so on. Most of the vegetables and fruits do not contain many carbohydrates. Vegetable tubers, like carrots and beans contain relatively more carbohydrate than vegetables

. Animal foods such as meat, chicken, fish, eggs, and milk contain very little carbohydrate. Sources of carbohydrates eaten as staple food in Indonesia are rice, maize, yams, cassava, taro, and sago.
Here are a source of carbohydrates based on 1 unit of exchange, with almost the same calories. Can be used to develop staple food. If you want to feel fit it should be weighed first but can also be estimated. Each of these foods contains the following:

Energy: 175 calories
Carbohydrates: 40 g
Protein: 4 g

Alternative Formulations:
1. Rice bread 100gr        70gr               50gr crackers
      (3/4 cup)               (3 pcs )         (5  pieces)

2. Wet noodle 200gr -   120gr cassava - corn
      125 g (2 cups)        (1 pcs)             (1 plate)

3. Sweet potatoes    210gr            135gr          taro 125 g
                       (2 seeds )          (1 piece)       (1 piece)

The Formulation types of food substitution and also the magnitude of the amount of carbohydrates needed by the body, then we can change our habits of eating rice with the substitution of another. To be sure, do not eat rice could satiety.

Good Behaviour and Food Choice

Good Behaviour and Food Choice

Islam regulates all aspects of human life, to set the earth's prosperity in the world and to attain happiness in the hereafter. Good Behaviour and Food Choice.  In obtaining and supporting one's happiness is to have a healthy body, so that we can serve everyone and do better to Allaah’s desire.

After advocating food and nutrition sufficiently in respect of volume, Islam also mandates the good behavior and healthy eating habit, and food choice.

. -Let food to cool before eating or drinking do not blow with the breath. (health aspects of physical (heat) and biological health (our breath contains a lot of bacteria and other diseases)

The Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu alaihi wa sallam said "let the food and drinks cool, and there are actually no good on hot food or drink" (Reported by Al-Hakim and Ad Dailami). Not to make it is cool by blowing with the breath because it is forbidden by the Prophet, (Reported by Ibn Majah).
In the field of gastroenterology is known that hot food can cause injury to the mucous membranes of the digestive tract that causes pain, tenderness, heat, bloating, full feeling, nausea, taste like sliced, and others. The food we eat would certainly be a nutritional intake that will fit in our body and is absorbed by the cells which will ultimately affect the activities of the body.
Good nutrition is not going to be very dangerous, instead.  The lawful and good food which is healthy and will be a source of full blessing in life activity.

. - Prohibit drinking alcohol, and not to choose smoking and what is harmful to the body Allah says, "They ask about" khamar 'and gambling, say, in both there is great danger and also benefits in humans, and the danger is greater than the benefit "(Quran Surah Al-Baqarah: 219)
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In another verse Allah says, "O ye who believe, in fact (drinking) khamr, gambling, (sacrificing to) idols, raffle fate with arrows, are abominations including deeds devil. So shun acts as you get lucky. "(Quran Surah to 5: 90). Khamar is everything intoxicating, such as alcohol.
By experts, alcohol is known to cause damage to all parts of the human body, such as the nervous system , blood vessels, heart, liver, gastrointestinal tract etc. Likewise, other materials that can damage the cells of the body that can lead to organ disfunction and disease. Having said that, all the damage it causes destruction compulsory shunned, as the prohibition God, "Do not throw yourselves into destruction." (Quran Surah Al-Baqarah: 195)

Included here is a real cigarette has caused damage to the heart, blood vessels, gastrointestinal, teeth, lungs, breath, skin and others .
Similarly, ethical guidelines, choosing a health foods are mandated by Islam.

Halal and Healthy Food

Halal and Healthy Food

To keep our body healthy is a must in religion understanding. Never do the fasting when we cannot perform other more important worship as shalat due to lack of energy to do the shalat. Performing shalat requires fit body, we have to stand for a certain duration, squat, and other deed in worshipping . when our healthy is limiting factor for performing shalat, take a medicine and before taking any medicine one has to consume staple food. A halal and healthy and good food in an enough volume. In this regard, consumption that meets the requirements of four healthy and five perfect is a thought that corresponds to a healthy life to be able to carry out charitable helpful and meaningful activities.

Islamic education gives a guidance to comsume as:

-Consuming and Eating Taste food and do not go overboard, even the prophet said to stop eating before satiety: It shows magnanimity, in order to have food provision for shadaqah and allocation to others the have not / do not have nothing to eat.
Allah says "eat and drink and do not exaggerate. Surely Allah does not love the extravagant" (Quran Surah Al-A'raf: 31)

Allah also says, "eat between good rizki We have given you and do not exceed the limits that cause agree of Him, then indeed he shall perish" (Quran Surah Taha: 81)

Food and drinks is a necessity in nutrition as life support (legal permissible), the number and kinds should be in accordance with the needs of the body, should not be less but also no more. In connection with this, the Prophet sallallaahu alaihi wa sallam said "not one man meets a container worse than his stomach. enough for a human child some food that can enforce his ribs, if it must eat a lot then one third for his food, one third for his drink, and one third for his breath "(Reported by Tirmidhi, Nasai of Ibn Majah)

-Keep the food healthy and Consume good food
Allah said "and eat halal and healthy food that God has given you, and fear Allah, that ye believe in Him" (Quran Surah Al Maidah: 88). to meet the food that meet the elements of good nutrition the body is expected to be in a state of optimal so that the immune system will work optimally in rejecting all kinds of diseases.

Those are the teaching of Islam where God gives a gudances and the Prophet set many examples in doing and preparing halal and good food. The guidances and teachings of Islam in maintaining a healthy body and have to be able to perform and make complete as much as charitable and pious life for themselves and for others as a kind of good deed and a worship.