Introduction: Thanksgiving is one of the traditional holidays in Western countries, especially popular in our country, but we are popular in sending thanksgiving blessings to friends and family, Western countries are a lot of thanksgiving activities, Thanksgiving dinner is indispensable, so what do you eat on Thanksgiving? What do people usually eat on Thanksgiving Day? And I go together to understand it.

1, turkey

Thanksgiving Day to eat turkey is the most well-known, turkey is the traditional main dish of the United States Sensation Day. The process of making turkey is complicated, except that the turkey's belly should be filled with stuffing mixed in advance, and the turkey should be roasted for at least four hours. With its tender, lean meat and protein content of more than 30 percent, most Americans love turkey.

There's a certain way to eat turkey. It needs to be roasted whole, with the skin baked to a dark brown color, and the stomach stuffed with a lot of well-mixed food, such as crumbled bread. When it is brought to the table, it is cut into thin slices by the host with a knife and distributed to everyone. It is then poured with marinade and sprinkled with salt by each person himself, and tastes very delicious.

2, cranberry moss jam

Cranberry moss jam, also known as cranberry sauce, has been the Thanksgiving and Christmas main dish turkey ingredients and seasonings. According to the U.S. Pharmacopoeia, cranberries have been used as an adjunct against cystitis and urinary tract infections, and their remarkable efficacy has been widely recognized. According to China's "Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine": cranberry leaves "taste bitter, astringent, warm, a small poison", diuretic detoxification, commonly used in rheumatism, gout; its fruits can be "pain, dysentery". Impressive is that because of its high economic value, medicinal potential and development prospects, cranberry has been listed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as one of the five health food for human beings.

3, pumpkin pie

What to eat on Thanksgiving? Pumpkin pie is an essential food for Thanksgiving. Pumpkin has a symbol of harvest, abundance, yellow, very auspicious.

Pumpkin is rich in carotenoids and vitamin C, which can strengthen the spleen, prevent gastritis, prevent night blindness, protect the liver, make the skin tender, and have the role of neutralizing carcinogens. Yellow fruits and vegetables are also rich in two vitamins A and D; vitamin A can protect the gastrointestinal mucosa, to prevent gastritis, gastric ulcers and other disorders; vitamin D promotes the absorption of calcium, phosphorus and two minerals, and then receive strong bones and strong tendons, for children rickets, adolescents nearsightedness, osteoporosis and other common diseases of the elderly have a certain preventive effect.

4, sweet potato puree

Sweet potato puree is also the United States Thanksgiving Day indispensable food. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and other ancient documents, sweet potatoes "fill the deficiency, benefit the energy, strengthen the spleen and stomach, strong kidney yin", "longevity and less disease". The Chinese Materia Medica says that it is "sweet in flavor and flat in nature, belonging to the spleen and kidney meridians", and that it "replenishes the middle and activates the blood, benefits the qi and promotes the production of fluids, broadens the intestines and stomach, and relieves constipation". The recent WHO selection of the best health food, sweet potato was named one of the 13 best vegetables.

5, Indian pudding

Thanksgiving most common traditional food in addition to turkey and pumpkin pie, and cornmeal Indian pudding. The fact that it would be called Indian pudding has nothing to do with Indians, simply because this dessert is made with cornmeal, which is preferred by Indians. Indian pudding is a must-have dessert for Thanksgiving and Christmas, and was popularized during the early British immigration to the United States.

6. Apple Cider

Thanksgiving is full of delicious traditional foods. After a hearty meal, there's nothing better than a little drink. Apple cider is one of those indispensable American Thanksgiving treats. Cider is low in alcohol content, from about 2%-8.5% or so. It contains mainly fructose from the apples, and has a fresh nose with a slight apple flavor, and a slightly sweet mouthfeel with a slight fruit acidity, and either a strong or light fruity flavor.

7, cornbread

Cornbread is a delicious American snacks, but also Thanksgiving Day indispensable food. It's called "bread" in English, but it's actually more like a pumpernickel cake. In the southern United States, it is used as a staple with soups and dishes, and has a light, single flavor. In the northern part of the United States, it is used as a pastry, sweet and salty, mixed with different ingredients, more like a snack.

8, white wine

Wine is a big seller on Thanksgiving. Because there will be a lot of food on this day, and with food of course there is no shortage of wine to go with it. Thanksgiving, white wine used to match the food can be diverse. This will have multiple options such as crispy, fresh and light. Pairing white wines with Thanksgiving seafood, poultry, and pork can be quite a delicious choice.

9. Fruit

The Thanksgiving table setting is also very unique. Instead of the usual flowers, housewives place fruits and vegetables. Often put a large pumpkin in the center, piled around some apples, corn and dried fruit. Sometimes apples or pumpkins were hollowed out and filled with shelled dried fruit or candles were lit. Apples, oranges, chestnuts, pecans and grapes can be eaten at the table.

10, mashed potatoes

Sweet potatoes are also traditional food on the Thanksgiving table. It is rich in vitamins, minerals, high-quality starch and lignin, known as the human "second bread". Its vitamins are 2 times the carrots, 3 times the cabbage, tomatoes, 4 times the content of vitamin C for the most vegetables. According to the United States Department of Agriculture statistics, the United States per capita consumption of potatoes 125 pounds per year, equivalent to a day to eliminate a medium-sized potatoes, is the highest consumption of vegetables in the United States.

11, apple pie

Thanksgiving food, many people will think of that stomach stuffed with ingredients roasted turkey, but in addition to turkey, we can not ignore another Thanksgiving Day food - apple pie. Apple pies come in all different shapes, sizes, and flavors, including free-form, standard two-layer, caramel apple pie, French apple pie, crumb apple pie, sour cream apple pie, and the list goes on and on.

Apple pie is used for many occasions besides Thanksgiving. A slice of apple pie in front of the fireplace in the winter, a flaky crust that doesn't steal the show, covered with a layer of apple flesh, plus caramel and cinnamon filling, a bite, apple, caramel and cinnamon in the mouth intertwined with lingering, lingering.

12, venison

The Indians brought five deer. Historians have determined that two foods appeared on the first Thanksgiving menu - venison and game birds.The fall of 1621 was the first Thanksgiving held in the Plimoth colony. They invited their benefactors, the Indian Wapano tribe, to a potluck, and the Indians brought venison to barbecue, while the Pilgrims served turkey and other game.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a holiday in the United States and Canada***, created by the American people to give thanks to God for the good harvest and to the Indians for their help. In the United States, since 1941, Thanksgiving is on the fourth Thursday of November every year, and from this day will be two days off; while Canada and the United States Thanksgiving time is different, the second Monday in October.

Like the Chinese New Year, it is a day when thousands of people, no matter how busy they are, reunite with their families. Canadian Thanksgiving, on the other hand, started in 1879 and is celebrated on the second Monday of October, the same as Columbus Day in the United States.