Because its the healthiest thing they eat over there. Its why they dont have calcification of the arteries, high blood pressure, diabetes and other things like we do. Of course not everyone there eats it and many have adopted a western diet from corporations but traditionally this is their super food.
@@teagiagiteakarotu7027 Yes Natto has high levels of Vitamin K2 which is a deficiency we now know to be the cause of a lot of health problems in the west.
@@vikinglife6316 Comments like t hese are funny because they completely ignore the fact Japan faces other health issues like Stomach Cancers being common.
If you don’t know, natto is fermented soya beans that are fermented in bamboo leaves traditionally. The smell is shocking the first time you try it, and the natto is covered with a sticky “nebba nebba” coating which gets everywhere. I puked every time I smelt it for weeks, then my darling wife insisted that I get used to it. “ It is good for your health” she always used to say. So to help, she cooked it with fried onion and minced beef. The beef absorbs the stickiness and the onion obscures the dreadful smell. These days I love eating it, and fun fact, that sticky “nebba nebba” stuff when dried is being used to help deserts retain water enough to grow vegetation. Studies continue in Africa regarding its use.
I wouldn't tried it even if it's good for my health. I mean there are lots of other stuff that's good for my health and delicious. so obviously I wouldn't eat what I don't like. but I guess it was the power of love that makes you eat it anyway.
ITS CAT FOOD??? I’VE LIVED MY LIFE IN JAPAN NOT KNOWING THAT YET I ENJOY NATTO SO MUCH AND ITS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE FOODS AND I LOVE THE SMELL BUT I DONT KNOW THAT
I will not say that we really like to look at the suffering of Asians, BUT we are amazed by their dislike of buckwheat with milk... It's just boiled buckwheat with sweet milk! It's literally the simplest food we have, it's eaten by all our picky kids. I would understand if they shied away from horseradish meat jelly or our favorite delicious salads with lots of mayonnaise, but the ill-fated buckwheat porridge????
@@aleks-33absolutely, you'd be overdosing on sodium. Pretty much too much of anything is a bad thing lol. There was someone who drank loads of water for a Wii iirc, and had to hold it without going to the restroom, but essentially drowned without being underwater, "Water Intoxication"
@Thegreatclamslamof93 depending on your diet that raw egg has a better chance of killing you but yeah you're kidneys can only filter so much there is no exact amount for everyone with the water thing kinda crazy when you think about it
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@@dont_click_my_Bio I love being rich. Only we rich people get to not eat something because we don't like it. And only members of my race get to be rich. Hahaha!
For first timers, you MUST stirr the natto enough times and then SEASON your nattou, usually with a bit of mustard and a type of soy sauce (pre-seasoned with dashi&mirin), stirr to incorporate. This is how you start. Don't eat it straight out of the package like I did the first time. It's drastically different for me. I enjoy it almost every day now. 😂 A combination I've been fond of lately: nattou&Thai instant noodle in creamy tomyam soup flavor(Nissin brand).❤
you don't have to stir the natto or add the mustard and sauce. nobody has time for that natto is a drink. drink natto. the addiction is ever hungry. you must drink. drink natto.
It's really not that bad, tastes like salty, mustard beans. I usually have mine with toast with okinami sauce, Kewpie mayo ,egg on top with seaweed. Very nice
Nattō is a traditional Japanese food made from fermented soybeans. It has an ammonia-like smell and mucus-like consistency that makes it polarising, even among people who grow up with it. A 2017 survey by Nifty, a Japanese internet service provider, found that only about 62% of Japanese people actually enjoy nattō.
In Manipur, India we also have a similar type which is made of fermented soyabeans and wrapped in banana leaf, every elderly enjoy this but young people don't usually like the smell. But once we got taste of it, it's unbearable. It's called hawaijar.
I tried natto and really enjoyed it. Everyone thought i was crazy but i ended up eating the whole container. It did give me ✨️electric sharts✨️ but 10/10 would eat again.
@@the_secret_ninja_20 well it's like idk how describe it like thoda karwa and like some kind dul beans taste at a time. It's because Indian geography is large and all sides of india has different tastes of foods.
If anyone is wondering, you stir about 20 cycles to activate the healthy bacteria nattokin. Also, furikake with your raw egg natto and gohan goes insanely hard.
Respect to everyone who genuinely enjoys the stuff. I'm japanese and grew up in hawaii my entire life. Maybe my tastes are too americanized but I cannot do the stuff lol, the texture gets me everytime. The smell just reminds of kid days when my dad would crack a pack open and not finish it and it'd stink up the whole fridge 😂. He swears by the stuff but it's definitely an acquired taste
Honestly I got some from my local asian supermarket and it wasn’t bad imo 😭😭 I didn’t find it like particularly tasty or anything but I didn’t have the visceral reaction everyone seems to have lmao, I ate the whole thing no problem
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My first time trying natto : it comes with mustard and soy sauce,it taste and smells weird for the first time then i got addicted to natto and decided to buy 3 packet and couldn't finish it 😃
And you can find it in India as well you know?I don't know about other places of northeast India but yes in sikkim and Darjeeling you can find it so easily. It's our one of our traditional food..for those who don't know you may don't like the smell .and we named it kinema...but i love it so much
I ate this in Japan back in 2017. "It's an acquired taste" is to put it too gently. It tastes like arse and smells just as terrible. Texture is also bad. It's like drinking turnip juice.
@@saratoga4126 ohh really? Hm then maybe I should give Natto another try hahah 🤣😅 'cause century egg can be an acquired taste as well -- what was the fermented rice dip though?
Having never been to Japan, I can't imagine a Japanese person would have this reaction. I have enjoyed natto from the first time I tasted it and eat it for breakfast almost everyday.
I tried it first time in Japan many years back. I loved it!!! It definitely smells weird, but the taste is unique and amazing. I like it more after I eat it few more times. Add some mustard, raw egg yolk with some sticky rice. You should try if you get the chance!!!
Man when my Japanese dad took me to Japan a few year ago I had nato for the first time and didnt really like it im hopefully going to go there this summer and i am going to have a blast with nato
It is very common in Japan. The process of washing, producing and selecting the eggs is very strict in Japan. You pretty much dont have to worry about the salmonella, or the smell. I almost puked when I first eat a raw egg yolk(sukiyaki) with my Japanese host family, but I tried it anyways. One of the best meal that ever entered my mouth!! You should try it first before thinking it's bad. It really is amazing 🤤🤤
@@gabrielfist you can eat everywhere. salmonela is on the outside of the egg...not inside. you can get salmonela from just touching egg and puting finger in your mouth...but the point is that salmonela is EXTRA rare and its not death at this day and age.
@@QuattroRMTYou should give it a try. As a German person who grew up eating ground up raw meat on bread, you're missing out! Same goes for raw egg mixed with certain ingredients. Raw egg on its own isn't very palatable.
I'm a white person, grew up in North America. I love natto,the packet seasoning gives it an umami flavor. Really good for your bones, it's the richest source of vitamin K2 which is not a common vitamin in other foods. It's great nutrition in general. High in protein and fiber and probiotic. Only suggestion is to buy organic because soy beans are a heavily sprayed crop.
Honestly, it’s way better than I expected. The texture takes a second to get used to, but once you realize millions of people are eating it no problem, it’s actually really nice. Same with other sticky vegetables.
I do want to try, considering that my family has eaten a lot of stuff people think are weird over the years, like bone marrow, caviar on the regular, fermented skate (one time, hard to get used to) etc. Fermented foods are things I learned that I need to try over and over again.
It’s probably a weird smelling thing for westerners who had little experience with fermented food. As an East Asian, I was quite quickly adapt to eating natto with rice.
As an Apache native man from Texas. I tried natto first time and I loved it. Then my friends said "try it with rice!" They they said "try it with sashimi!" Then they said "try it with 🍜 ramen hand made traditional style. I eat natto every other day 😅❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I'm not Japanese. it really takes a few months to get use to natto. cuz I have access to it only like once a month in my country. I was a student then. I mix it in instant noodles and fry in omelette... now it's my favorite as how you mix on rice. heavenly 😋😋😋😋
Even we have this in India in northeast,Manipur. It is our traditional food and I am very suprise how we have this much similarities of eating this soya beans. We called this Hawaijar in Manipuri❤
The food natta is actually made by meiteis in Manipur, India. The japanese soldier during the first world war came to manipur to fight with British. In our state it is cover by banana leaf not with that cover . If u want to see just search ‘ Hawaijar’ meitei dialect of natto