I will now eat a nixtamalized corn instead of rice for a better nutrition intake

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Not what it looks like.

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The Binatog recipe calls for the glutinous white corn.

Almost everyday the ambulant vendor of this local foodstuff we call "Binatog" which he vends on the street using his bicycle and his distinct bell which he strikes as he goes along the road to make the people know that he is near. The sound if his bell is now the standard for selling "Binatog", a nixtamalized white corn kernels cooked for so long that it becomes sticky and soft when done. They use food-grade lime in order to breakdown the hard skin of the white corn kernels.

The traditional cooking process of Binatog is long it is because the dry white corn kernels has to be rinsed three times, it needs to cook with a measured amount of calcium hydroxide, it has to let stand for some hours after boiling for a quite some time, it has to be rinsed a few times and then rubbed together while rinsing to get rid of the already soft outer skin or "pericarp" and then boiled and observe if it makes a yellow liquid, if it does it has to be rinsed again and then do the final boiling until it gets sticky and its size in volume gets bigger.

Even if the corn had been boiled a few times and in a longer time frame and rinsed, it is more nutritious compared to boiling it long and consuming it. The denature effect of food grade lime or calcium hydroxide makes the corn give out its vitamins for our guts to absorb and use plus it makes the corn tasty and softer.

Anyway, the Binatog is usually served with grated mature coconut meat and based on people's preferences, either sugar or salt is added. For me, I often like some sugar to be added because I needed extra calories in my diet plus I do not eat frequently so that at least I can compensate my calorie needs in a day but in the most part I really can't fulfill it because I can't eat that much plus eating frequently makes me consume more fluids which I am really trying to avoid because my dialysis center had restricted me for din so otherwise they will not take the amount beyond my limit.

My aim to eat Binatog instead of rice now is for me to get extra nutritional value where the rice is lacking. It is more tasty than rice and with my bad appetite, it will help me to consume more carbohydrates in order for me to gain some real mass in tandem with my use of Ketoanalogues tablet and Moringa powder. It will be my diet now along with a little protein from the viand which my mother will also serve. Again I needed to consume as little animal protein because I have an inadequate dialysis treatment as shown in my creatinine test result so that I can avoid build-up of more creatinine, urea, nitrogen and all that nitrogen compound so that I can avoid feeling so much ill than I am already enduring for more than a decade now or two.

I really regret on how it came to this because it is supposed to be not like this, revolving my diet just to cut the ill feeling in my body because of a bad dialysis quality because of my numbers of IDH or crashing blood pressure. But I just hope that I can get through this major hurdle about achieving my needed well-being, and with God's mercy and grace I can get it.

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