West African Food Resources
Bintimani Project
The Bintimani Restaurant is more of a project than a restaurant.
We rarely advertise. We prefer that our food advertise itself; and it definitely does, big time.
You will probaly not find us when you google for "Restaurants in Boston". We don't believe in such portrayal of Bintimani. You hear about us one way or the other with the passage of time.
At Bintimani, we focus on healthy foods. It is the reason we serve only natural foods; and West African food is natural. Our food is just as healthy as it is feeling. When you eat cassava leaf on rice, for example, you can expect to feel full, and not wanting to eat, for the next three to four hours that follow. That's because our food is a balanced, natural diet.
Here is some informanton to back our claim. A recent review of global dietary habits published by The Lancet Global Health has effectively ranked what 187 nations eat on the basis of nutrition. The good news: The world is eating more healthy food than it has in the past. The bad news: It’s also eating a lot more shitty food.
Surely this is a contradiction, you say! Not quite. Researchers examined data from 320 self-reported diet surveys collected between 1990 and 2010 and analyzed them using three dietary patterns. The first included the consumption of healthy fruits, vegetables, beans and legumes, nuts and seeds, whole grains, fish, and milk, as well as total polyunsaturated fatty acids, plant omega-3s, and dietary fiber. The second pattern included unprocessed red meats, processed meats, sugary beverages, saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, and sodium. The third pattern looked at all of those food groups at once, and performed an overall assessment based on all 17 food groups. The study covered 187 nations representing 4.5 billion world adults.
The researchers examined varying degrees of adherence to these dietary patterns in order to score nations on a scale of heart-attack-inducing zero to a Jack-Lallane-juicing 100.
Some low-income nations actually scored higher for healthy foods than you might expect, with places such as Chad, Gambia, Mali, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Côte d’Ivoire, and Uganda receiving some of the highest marks. Maybe they don’t have cold-pressed juice spots on every corner, but the West African diet of lean meats, vegetables, beans, legumes, and rice does a body good.
