{"id":16750,"date":"2021-01-12T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=16750"},"modified":"2021-01-04T12:51:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T17:51:09","slug":"latin-american-vegan-foods-high-in-calcium-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/12\/latin-american-vegan-foods-high-in-calcium-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Latin American Vegan Foods High in Calcium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1.LA-foods-grouped-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1.LA-foods-grouped-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1.LA-foods-grouped-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/1.LA-foods-grouped-1024x768.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Photo by Odette Olivares<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Odette Olivares, VRG Intern<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latin American gastronomy is the result of traditional\nindigenous cuisine enriched by ingredients that Spaniards, Africans,\nPortuguese, French, and people from other cultures brought on their arrival to\nLatin America. The diet of indigenous people used to be rich in plant foods\nwith moderate quantities of insects, fish, and meat. They did not use to\nconsume milk, cheese, or other dairy products, yet they were apparently able to\nget enough calcium from their diets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Latin American ingredients with 30 to 40 mg of calcium per\nportion that can add to your calcium intake, include eggplant, tamarind pulp,\ncarrots, blackberries, lupin beans, black beans, red kidney beans, nixtamalized\ncorn flour, green onions, pigeon peas, dried apricots, lentils, Jamaica or\nHibiscus flowers, walnuts, and guavas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To see more, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutrition\/foods_calcium.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutrition\/foods_calcium.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read this article in Spanish here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/Alimentos-veganos-Latinoamericanos-y-Altos-en-Calcio.pdf\">https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/nutshell\/Alimentos-veganos-Latinoamericanos-y-Altos-en-Calcio.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Odette Olivares, VRG Intern Latin American gastronomy is the result of traditional indigenous cuisine enriched by ingredients that Spaniards, Africans, Portuguese, French, and people from other cultures brought on their arrival to Latin America. The diet of indigenous people used to be rich in plant foods with moderate quantities of insects, fish, and meat. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16752,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16750\/revisions\/16752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}