Soju, Pork, Main Calorie Source for Koreans
Apart from boiled rice, the staple diet of Koreans, soju and pork are the major calorie sources for Korean men in their 30s and 40s while ramyen, or instant noodles, and coffee provide Korean women in the same age bracket, with the most calories according to a survey by a state-run health research institute.
The Korea Health Industry Development Institute's survey shows that the main source of calories for Korean men aged from 30 to 49 during summer was rice, followed by soju, instant noodles and pork. Pork is largely enjoyed as samgyeobsal, or grilled pork belly.
The survey was conducted in the form of man-to-man interview from June 27 to July 15 in 2005 on 2,454 people from 983 families.
The results showed Korean men obtained 2,400 kilocalories on average from their daily diet and took about a third or 33.9 percent of their daily calories from rice which provided them with 814 kilocalories per day.
But interestingly, the second biggest calorie source was from soju providing 138.7 kilocalories or 5.3 percent; about 84.7 kilocalories or 3.5 percent from instant noodles; and 77.2 kilocalories or 3.2 percent from pork. Grilled pork belly itself makes up 2.5 percent or 61.5 kilocalories.
Women in the same age bracket had rice, instant noodles and pork as their main energy source as their counterparts, but they drank a relatively large amount of coffee through which they obtained 38.7 kilocalories per day.
Jang Young-ae, a doctor with a nutrition team at the institute said that soju was one of the favored calorie sources for Korean men in their 30s and 40s.
``The pattern has not changed much since 1999 when the first survey on people's source of calories was conducted,'' she said.
Korea Times
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