Five Foods to Help Fight Swine Flu

Pushing these immune-building foods as helping to fight swine flu in particular seems a bit sensationalist to me but, hey, I didn’t make it up. That part fell to “Internet Chef” Bridget Davis who, oddly enough for a chef, lists the foods, but leaves it up to us to figure out what to do with them.

When the World Health Organisation- WHO releases a global warning about a possible pandemic, currently swine influenza A (H1N1) or the swine flu public reaction tends to take one of the following forms.

You have your pragmatist or ‘well stocked pantry personality’ who is boy scout ready for any possible outbreak including stock piling face masks, bottles of drinking water and long-life batteries.

Lacking a recipe, I considered the five immune-building foods and it occurred to me that an answer could be very simple, indeed. If you were to combine the five, sauté slowly with a cup of coconut milk and then you poured the whole shebang over steamed rice, you’d have a rather lovely lunch.

Internet Chef’s list of the big five is here.