“You are what you eat.” The old adage seems to be especially true in India, where World Health Organization statistics showed that the rate of new cancers in 2020 was 6.9 percent, much lower than the 11.8 percent found in the United States or China’s 23.7 percent.
Is there a secret to Indians’ health? Let’s take a look at curry, a common Indian food.
The fragrant dish contains a wealth of spices with medicinal value.
The name “curry” was originally a British translation of an Indian word for a particular spice blend. It has come to refer to a dish with sauce or gravy, cooked with a variety of spices. Since there are hundreds of spices that can be used to make curry, there are many different styles of curry, each with its own spices and proportions. In fact, so many recipes have been created that there is a curry cookbook entitled 660 Curries….