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The title suggested this would be about the dish's ability to cure a hangover, but it was mostly a human interest piece about its history and a chef who's known
by portmanteaufu 8y ago
The title suggested this would be about the dish's ability to cure a hangover, but it was mostly a human interest piece about its history and a chef who's known for making it. The only paragraph to address its role as a hangover cure is buried at the bottom:
> It turns out that this belief in yakamein’s transformative effects is more than faith. In a conference talk a few years ago, food scientist Alyson E Mitchell said that, indeed, yakamein likely helps hangovers. Eggs have cysteine, an amino acid that helps scrub acetaldehyde (one of alcohol’s toxic by-products) from the body. The fatty meat can help slow down the absorption of alcohol, making yakamein an equally good choice before a night out as it is after. The salty broth replaces the sodium lost during all those alcohol-induced trips to the toilet; it also encourages you to drink more water, fighting dehydration.
No data is provided. Based on this, I would think any salty meal with eggs and fatty meat would work.
- ams6110 8y agoA Sausage McMuffin with Egg does it for me.
- graeme 8y agoYeah. Based on reading this, I‘m going to try Pho next hangover. (The article linked to a scientist’s report which listed general characteristics of foods that may help hanogvers. Eggs, salty broth, fatty meat were all on the list) https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2013/april/on-yak-a-mein-soup-aka-old-sober.html https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/20...
- nucleardog 8y agoGrab any fast food joint's egg + bacon/sausage type breakfast sandwiches. Eggs, more than enough salt, fatty meat, costs like $2.
- graeme 8y agoLacks the broth. That mayb have some qualities that help? In any case, egg and bacon breakfasts haven't cured hangovers for me, sadly.
- baby 8y agoPho is the inverse of fat though, I would go for westernized ramen for that.