Foods for zinc
What APEX holds on the table for zinc: the foods it leads with, each with where it comes from and why it is ours. Not a treatment plan — the food, and the reason it is on the list.
Compiled by APEX Legacy from published research and documented food
history, under the editorial direction of
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Dishes & One-Pots
She-Crab Soup A rich cream soup of blue crab meat and roe, sherry, and a light roux. Meatloaf Ground beef with onion, bell pepper, egg, bread crumbs, and a ketchup-brown sugar glaze. Smothered Pork Chops Bone-in chops pan-fried then braised in onion-mushroom brown gravy until falling tender. Oxtail Stew Jamaican slow-braised oxtail with butter beans — the elevated celebration dish that began… Chesapeake Oyster Stew Plump oysters simmered gently in milk and butter with their own liquor, finished with Old… Oyster Fritters Whole oysters folded into a seasoned batter and fried into golden cakes, served on bread… Egusi Soup West Africa's most important soup — ground melon seeds simmered in red palm oil with… Deviled Clams Chopped clams mixed with seasoned breadcrumbs, Old Bay, and pepper, baked back in the… Snapping Turtle Soup Snapping turtle meat slow-simmered into a dark, sherry-laced soup with vegetables and… Baltimore Pit Beef Top round grilled hot and fast over charcoal, sliced thin and rare, piled on a kaiser… BBQ Chicken Whole or half chicken cooked low and slow on a wood pit or gas grill with dry rub, sauce… Beef Stew Chuck beef with carrots, potatoes, celery, onions in dark brown gravy.
Meat & Poultry
Fried Chicken (Southern) The most recognized soul food dish — Southern fried chicken whose spiced flour seasoning… Fried Pork Chops Thin bone-in pork chops dredged in seasoned flour and fried in cast iron. Chicken Gizzards Cleaned, seasoned, deep-fried or braised gizzards. Working-class protein that became a… Smoked Hot Links The deep-red, coarse-ground, fiercely seasoned smoked sausage of East Texas — the 'hot… Liver and Onions (Southern Style) Southern pan-fried liver and onions with gravy — the most nutrient-dense meal in soul… Cuttlefish Squid-related cephalopod with lean high protein, the highest zinc content of any… Freshwater Crayfish Dried and ground small freshwater crayfish used as both protein and umami seasoning agent…
Beans & Peas
Agushi Agushi — Ghana's watermelon seed soup thickener. Similar function to Nigerian egusi but… Fluted Pumpkin Seed (Ugu Seed) Fluted pumpkin seeds (ugu seeds) — the large, oil-rich seeds of Nigeria's most nutritious…
Seafood
Deviled Crab Crab meat mixed with seasoning baked in a crab shell or ramekin. Oysters Bivalve mollusk — pound for pound the most zinc-dense food in existence. Fried Hard Crabs Cleaned hard blue crabs, halved and battered, then deep-fried whole so you crack and pick… Periwinkle (Isiewu Shellfish) The ancestral West African street shellfish — tiny marine snails boiled with pepper… Gullah Oyster Roast Clusters of local oysters steamed and roasted over an open fire under wet burlap until… Steamed Blue Crabs Live blue crabs steamed over vinegar and water, coated in Old Bay, dumped on…
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