Earth is a single planet, but it withholds an enormous amount of people and culture. Each country differs in its own way, starting from people’s appearance to the varieties of food on their plate. Specifically, speaking about food, they play a huge role in adding up flavors to the culture. If you are a food addict, you would have noticed that the cuisines vary according to the countries. Even within a country, the dishes contrast from state to state, with a common element in all of them. So, the people weave together food and culture as their identity. The cuisine of a particular country depends on several factors like:

• Geographical conditions: Climate experienced by people, type of soil, and various other agricultural factors decide the diet habit of the people. People living in cold countries add more red meat (pork, beef) to their diet to generate their body heat, and in popular places, they give more importance to spices to resolve the appetite raised by heat. The staple nourishment of temperate regions like the United States, Brazil, Africa is wheat and potatoes and for tropical regions like India, Indonesia, japan it is rice and lots of veggies.
• Religion: it also plays a vital role in the dietary habit of people. Religion like Hinduism doesn’t support the intake of meat as the killing of animals is considered being sin, according to them; though few people eat fish and chicken. Christianity doesn’t have many restrictions, but they consider bread and wine as the flesh and blood of Jesus. Muslims consume Halal foods and do not consume pork and foods comprising alcohol as a component.

• Trade: this process helped in mixing up and bringing in new flavors between different countries. Spices like cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, cardamom, and much more were mainly traded to enhance their cuisine.
• Cooking process: In western regions like America making includes baking, roasting, microwaving, frying, smoking, and grilling are the most common ways. And on the eastern side, like India, it is commonly tempering, sautéing, and steaming. Unlike Indian foods, Americans do not use more spices in their food and are more appetizer to sweet and salty flavors. Most of the western foods are solids while comparing to the liquid side dishes of eastern regions. Olive oil is the key ingredient of western dishes and most of the eastern countries use soy sauce.

People are considering their flavors and cuisines as adding pride to their culture. Food like water is also a necessary source of your life. So, eating healthy, following a balanced diet plan along with enough exercises increases your lifespan.