Frei Betto recommends Cubans fry potato peels to eat

The Brazilian theologianFrei Betto left some dietary advice for Cubans this Wednesday at the Round Table, including frying shellspapas, which he said are excellent "for snacking."

“Potato peel, for example, is great to snack on when having a drink. Fried is excellent"commented the South American intellectual, who indicated at another point in his speech that the problem is that people have dietary vices that they do not want to change.

Insisting on the idea that Cuban citizens should make maximum use of the food they consume -and elaborating on the issue of peels-Frei Betto also recommended melon ones, in that case to make sweets.

He also spoke of the need not to throw away the leaves of some foods, such as carrots, because it is said that "they have a lot of nutritional power."

Before the amazed gaze of journalist Arleen Rodríguez, the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) advisor offered his views on Cuba's Food Sovereignty and Nutritional Education Program.

“If you open a bakery in Havana with cassava, sweet potato or corn bread, there will be long lines because those breads have more flavor than wheat bread.”, he commented, and he also did not miss the opportunity to downplay the importance of the meats.

"Many times rural people are not aware and think that protein is only in beef, in pork, there is a lot of protein in beans, but Cuban food culture does not attribute protein values to beans, and "It has a lot," said the religious, whoIn recent months, on more than one occasion he has referred to the alleged "bad eating habits" of Cubans.

In the midst of the terrible food shortage suffered by the Cuban people, at the end of last December Frei Betto came to assure that in CubaThere is no hunger, but Cubans have a lot of appetite.

"There is no hunger in Cuba. But Cubans have a lot of appetite! The government spends more than 2 billion dollars a year to import food, even from Brazil, from which it buys, among other things, rice and chicken..." , he wrote in an article published inGranma.

A couple of months later, in February, Frei Betto insisted on the idea that there is no hunger in Cuba, butadmitted that there is a "risk of food insecurity", something he attributed to the United States "blockade", climate change and other factors.