Holy VII

5. If you are trying to be healthy. Instead of jumping on to all this health trends carnivore, vegan, keto, mineral balance, etc. Eat of what grows naturally on your land or that which is part of you culture and cycle the food within the liturgical season of the church.

4. So we get lost with the vitamins, nutrients, sugar values etc instead of just participating with the land or culture that we are apart of. A globalized world also makes more difficult to do that because we have some many things available all the time so seasons do not matter.

3. We look at food too scientifically meaning reducing it to parts, like many things materialism and modernism has done to things. As an example instead appreciating the participation of eating an orange, we just eat vitamin C. Losing the whole meaning or joy of eating an orange.

2. The food of that land was part of the body of people that was brought together by it. That's why you have german food, polish food, japanese food, etc. In a scientific sense the "motherland" all ways fed the appropriate nutrients needed for that group of people.

I believe we actually know nothing about food. Symbolically it was always understood that what you eat becomes part of you, hence the idiom "you are what you eat." This give a better understanding of the Eucharist along with why cultural food are a food of that culture.