Foods eaten by the ninja
For health, ninja avoided meat, fish, dairy foods, and sugars in favor of a diet centered on whole-grain rice and vegetables. Also, to avoid being detected when sneaking or hiding, they avoided foods that might lead to body odor. However, they did not avoid these foods completely, but seem to have eaten some foods for strength as well.
🎌Millet, whole-grain rice, wheat, other grains, potatoes
🎌Mushrooms, mulberries, oleaster, chestnuts, sweet chestnuts, nutmeg, and pine nuts.
There are portable foods from this time such as dried rice, but there were also portable foods particular to the #ninja.
🎌“Thirst ball” - helped hold back thirst
This was made from crushed plum pulp, put with rye ergot (a fungus that grew on grass) and crystallized sugar, and made into a ball.
🎌“Hunger ball” - helped hold back hunger
This was made with carrots, buckwheat flour, wheat flour, yam, licorice root, and rice flour which was steeped in sake for three years.
When the sake had dried, the mixture was balled in about the size of a peach pit and ready for use.
