In the impression of most friends, Africa is relatively poor. Moreover, people there will be satisfied if they can eat three meals a day, let alone give their children snacks. However, some people in Africa are so poor? Eat dirt? Moreover, the food they cook is made of mud and directly dried as a snack. A lot of people have problems,

Does eating mud have no effect on your health? Can you defecate normally?

In fact, many of us have misunderstood? Eat mud? This question tells everyone why Africans eat dirt!

In Tanzania in East Africa. There is a small village nearby, and people often go around after dinner. The children are holding a red one? Candy stick? It looks like a small ham sausage sold in China, the same thickness, but slightly shorter. Seeing that they eat with relish, how can Dorobou eat it? It's incredible.

Black people there do have the custom of eating dirt. In the market, there are baskets of mud strips between vegetables and colorful fruits, which are made of red mud, because the land in Tanzania is red, which is why local Masai people love to wear red clothes, because they first made clothes with mud-dyed cloth. It is said that children also eat Dorobou, but adult men don't.

Of course, not all soil can be eaten. The local people dug up the soil layer and took away the soil below a few meters. It is speculated that the soil under the surface is cleaner. That's some red soil. Take it home and pick out pebbles, weeds and other impurities, then make it into slender strips with moderate hardness with water, cut it into sections with a knife, and then dry it with fire, which can kill germs. Kenya, Tanzania's neighboring country, also has the custom of eating soil. They mix the soil they want to eat with cassava, corn, potatoes and banana rice they eat every day and cook them together, then eat them together. How much soil is mixed in a pot of rice is decided by parents and the head of the family. Black people are used to eating with their families or family members. Sometimes a pot of rice is as much as a dozen or even dozens of kilograms, but only two or three pieces of soil are mixed together. If you don't say it in advance, I'm afraid you may not eat it.

The mixed soil formula is confidential.

It is an ancient custom for Africans to eat soil, which is the result of adapting to nature for thousands of years. According to their theory, land is a symbol of women, because land nurtures everything, and women also shoulder the heavy responsibility of bearing children, so women in reproductive period should especially eat soil. South Africans have done research and found that soil contains 65 elements needed by human body. In addition, clay contains negatively charged particles, which prevent toxins in gastric juice from entering the blood and excrete toxins through the kidneys and intestines. In some parts of Africa, people use clay to treat diseases such as dysentery and cholera. Scientists have also sampled and tested the soil eaten by pregnant women in Tanzania and Nigeria, and found that eating 500 mg of clay every day can meet 80% of the calcium needs of pregnant women, and the detoxification of soil can protect the fetus. In addition, clay is generally weakly alkaline, which can neutralize gastric acid, reduce pregnancy reaction and relieve vomiting.

In Africa, it is the secret of many tribes and families to find soil and mix it with it.

Summary: Soil is actually edible, but not all soil can be eaten. Africans can find some edible soil. Then you can defecate normally after eating, which has little effect on your body. But this is all based on a control of food intake.

If you eat soil purely as a meal, it will cause bloating, diarrhea, poor defecation in severe cases, and even life-threatening!