[pct-l] Caustions about no-cook-food

[Reinhold Metzger]

[pct-l] Caustions about no-cook-food



*Yoshi,
This is dynamite....I did not know that.
This is very important information for the UL speed hikers and record
seekers (including me) who frequently go cold in quest of lighter packs
to increase their speed.
This information may change this line of thinking, because if  the net
result of the cold menu (no-cooked food) results in lower nutrition
absorbtation the hiker may have to carry more "no-cooked food" to
compensate for the lower nutritional absorbation in "no-cooked food"
and his pack may actually wind up being heavier.
Or, if he does not compensate by carrying more cold food he may have
less energy due to the lower nutrition absorption "in non-cooked food."

Interesting...very interesting.

Say Yoshi,....does the food actually have to be cooked or can it be just
heated up, without  actually reaching a boiling point, to prevent a loss
of nutritional absorption?
Because, if just heating it up would suffice we could just have our girl
friends, or wives, sit on the zip-lock food bags with their "HOT"  little
behinds and heat up the "no-cooked food" so there is no loss of
nutritional absorption.
I wonder if this will result in more girls on the trail.
That would be good because we have enough homely looking hiker
dudes on the trail,...what we need is more good looking "Hiker Babes"
on the trail

Just wondering,...that's all?

JMT Reinhold
Your curious trail companion.
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Yoshihiro Murakami* completewalker at gmail.com 
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Some hiker put food into a zip lock pack, soak with water and eat it . It
may be a rational technique of weight reduction, but the absorption rate of
nutrition will become low.  Cautions are needed from a viewpoint of
nutrition

I was just idling my job and read a special issue of appetite of Japanese
edition of Scientific American.  I was impressed by the article of  Richard
Wrangham. Therefore, I purchased his book entitled  "Catching Fire --- How
cooking made us human" ( Japanese translation) .

This book explained the cooking hypothesis about the theory of evolution in
detail. Very briefly, the burden of the digestive organs decreased,  and
the our brain able to became large,  since human beings cooked the food
using fire. Then, we had enough time for hunting, and exploring our outer
world, based on this hypothesis. The scientific basis of digestion was also
studied to some extent. That is, probably, this hypothesis may be true for
some extent.

The important facts( for hiker ) are as follows:
The digestive rate of carbohydrate was :   cooked food 95%,  no-cooked
48-71%.
                        ( no-cooked  wheat 71%)

      ( no-cooked potato  51%

      ( no-cooked bananas 48% )

The digestive rate of protein:                    cooked egg 91-94%,
  no-cooked 51-65%.

When freeze dry food is used abundantly, the digestive rate will be
improved. But, I recommend the use of hot water to re-hydrate the dry food.

-- 
Sincerely