Traditional foods eaten on Thanksgiving include turkey, cranberry moss jam, sweet yams, cornbread, and mashed potatoes.

1, turkey

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There is a story that at a harvest festival one year in the 16th century, Queen Elizabeth of England was eating roast goose. When news came that the invincible Spanish Armada had sunk on its way to attack her beloved England, the Queen was overjoyed and asked for another goose to celebrate the good news.

Thus the goose became the favorite bird of the English harvest season. When the Pilgrims came to America from England, roast turkey became the main dish instead of roast goose, because turkeys were more abundant and easier to find on the North American continent than geese.

2. Cranberry Moss Jam

Sweet and tart, cranberry jam was on the first Thanksgiving table, and it's on today's table, too. The cranberry is a small, tart wild berry that grows in the swampy areas of Massachusetts and the New England states. The Indians used its fruit to treat all kinds of inflammation and used the juice to dye carpets and blankets red. They taught the Pilgrims how to cook cranberries using sugar and water to make cranberry sauce.

3. Sweet Potatoes

Sweet potatoes are one of the staples of Thanksgiving. Sweet potatoes contain dietary fiber, carotene, vitamins A, B, C, E and potassium, iron, copper, selenium, calcium, etc., with high nutritional value. Sweet potatoes are known to be very nutritious. However, more valuable is, in the Japanese National Cancer Research Center recently announced 20 kinds of anti-cancer vegetables "list", sweet potato also won the top.

4, cornbread

Cornbread, which is a favorite food of the British and Indians. According to the origin of Thanksgiving, initially the British Puritans immigrated to the United States without food to eat, the local Indians sent their own food to them, in order to show gratitude, from then on there is a Thanksgiving Day. Therefore, this cornbread is so continued, became a Thanksgiving Day must have a food.

5, mashed potatoes

The traditional Thanksgiving food and sweet mashed potatoes. Potatoes are rich in protein, the content is even better than soybeans, closest to animal protein. Potatoes are also rich in lysine and tryptophan, which is generally not comparable to food.

Potatoes are also rich in potassium, zinc and iron. The potassium it contains prevents cerebral blood vessels from rupturing. It contains protein, vitamin C, are 10 times the apple, vitamin B1, B2., iron and phosphorus content is also much higher than apple.