Working Prophet

In fact, Li Yu has been paying attention to nutrition issues for a long time. When the lizard people first came out of the swamp, they were more or less suffering from some diseases.

When Li Yu treated them, he discovered that many people's problems were actually caused by lack of nutrition.

Due to the lack of materials in the swamp and the difficulty of farming, the lizard people's food source is relatively single.

Some of them have shortness of breath, fatigue easily, frequent headaches, severe walking difficulties, and even dementia, all of which are caused by folic acid deficiency.

In contrast, people outside the swamp rarely have such problems. This is because foods containing folic acid are actually quite common outside.

Bread (or other whole wheat foods), beans, broccoli... these are foods that even civilians eat regularly.

Similarly, there is also riboflavin, also called vitamin B2, which is contained in yeast, soybeans, and milk products. In some vegetables, riboflavin is also found in large amounts in animal livers, kidneys, hearts and eggs.

It can still be replenished in the swamp.

As for outside the swamp, the problem of nutritional deficiencies still exists and is widespread.

After all, in the universe where Li Yu lives, vitamins were not discovered until the 19th century. Although some dietary guidelines were published before that, they were all based on experience and mixed with many assumptions and fallacies.

There are similar problems on the Bratis continent. The nobles and rich people here firmly believe that wheat is the most nutritious, especially finely sifted flour. The more carefully sifted, the less impurities in the bread, and the better it tastes. healthy.

Small border aristocrats like the Arias family, who are not particularly particular, can knead the dough and ferment after sifting it once or twice, and Miss Rabbit doesn't mind it very much if they bring a little bran.

But for those real nobles in the capital, they have a group of dedicated servants to do this kind of thing, they can sift seven or eight times, exaggerated even a dozen times, it is said that Count Rodrigo once held a banquet, he The chef sifted the flour used to make bread twenty-seven times.

The bread was as white as snow and soft in texture. Even the emperor and empress were full of praise after eating it.

In addition to bread, various meats are also essential on the tables of nobles.

Not only all kinds of domestic animals and poultry, but also game in the forest, roe deer, hare, antelope, quail, even swan, egret... are very popular, supplemented with various precious spices, it is a delicacy.

But the upper echelons of the empire are very repulsive to fruits and vegetables, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, probably because they feel that unprocessed food is difficult to make people feel at ease, and it cannot match their identities.

However, this kind of inexplicable conceit will cause many of them to become loose teeth, curly hair, skin diseases, wounds difficult to heal, and even personality changes due to lack of vitamin C.

On the contrary, the commoners would go to the woods to dig some wild vegetables and mushrooms to fill their stomachs from time to time because they had what to eat. The recipes were wider than those of the nobles.

The main problems they face are too little meat intake, insufficient protein, and lack of vitamin B12 and vitamin D, causing bleeding gums, yellow eyes and skin, pernicious anemia, nausea, spinal cord deformation, rickets, rickets and other symptoms.

Li Yu saw many patients like this when wandering around the village. Some children were born unable to walk. The priests of the Silver Moon Church called these deformed children abandoned by God, saying that they were polluted by filth since birth.

The mothers of those children also asked Li Yu for help, hoping that he could help their children recover, but Li Yu had no good solution for the bone deformities caused by severe rickets.

Modern medical treatment is not omnipotent, and Li Yu is not a professional doctor.

He is more from a prevention perspective, trying to reduce the chances of such things happening from the source as much as possible.

Li Yu's plan is a two-pronged approach. On the one hand, he preaches to believers the importance of a balanced diet. He even plans to add this part of the content to the precepts in the future.

In addition, in response to the general lack of protein and the lack of vitamin B12 and vitamin D among ordinary people, Li Yu's solution is to develop the aquaculture industry, or more precisely, to dig ponds for fish farming.

The reason why we raise fish instead of raising pigs, cattle, and chickens is because the cost of raising fish is the lowest.

If we want most people, not just a small minority of the ruling class, to eat meat, the cost of meat production must be completely reduced.

Speaking of which, Li Yu found inspiration from "History of the Crusades".

The first Crusade, also known as the Civilian Crusade, was basically a group of mobs who, under the leadership of Hermit Peter, burned, killed and looted all the way, like a swarm of locusts, committed countless appalling evils, and finally in 1096 They were defeated by the Turkish army and almost completely wiped out.

But they were not without gains. Those who were lucky enough to escape also brought some carp back with them.

After that, the Europeans began to imitate their enemies and raised large quantities of carp.

This kind of miraculous fish actually came from a distant ancient oriental country. They are famous for their tenacious vitality, fast reproduction speed, and rapid growth. They don’t even need to prepare special fish food, and they can grow by feeding some leftovers. very good.

It is an excellent source of meat. Although it has a lot of thorns, this is not a problem for Li Yu. The only problem is how to find carp.

Li Yu did not find any trace of this kind of fish when he was conducting a product survey in Luye. No one in the entire Western Region had even seen a carp.

Therefore, the Prophet of Shuangxiu could only entrust the Golden Fleece Chamber of Commerce to help him search for carp on the continent of Bratis. As long as the live carp can be transported to the green field, Li Yu is willing to pay a high price of three thousand gold coins. acquisition.

Of course, Li Yu was not idle until the carp came, and planned to get some pike to raise first.

The ancient Romans once raised pike as one of the sources of meat, but with the collapse of the Roman Empire, the originally thriving fish farming industry disappeared like many technologies.

Like carp, pike is also a relatively easy-to-raise freshwater fish with delicious meat and fast growth.

But compared to carp pike, they are more ferocious. In addition to attacking other fish, they will also attack small animals such as frogs, wild ducks, and mice. If there is no food, they will kill each other.

The difficulty and cost of raising them are higher than carp, but the advantage is that they are easy to obtain. They are available in nearby rivers and can be raised immediately.

You can do it as a transition first, and you can also accumulate some breeding experience.

In addition to digging fish ponds, Li Yu also plans to introduce tofu to Bratis as another means of supplementing protein.

Unlike carp, which has to be searched all over the world, tofu is very easy to make. The raw materials only need various beans, gypsum and a few simple steps to produce it, so that the originally bad taste of beans can also become delicious.