The Most Important Meal of the Day Quiz

Answer: India

Kedgeree was originally an Indian dish which was picked up by the British during the time of the Raj. It is basically a light dish of fish (normally smoked haddock), rice and eggs. A small amount of curry powder is added for the curried version but it is also delicious left plain. Some people like to add peas to it and some add sultanas.

Answer: Hollandaise

Eggs Benedict consist of two halves of an English muffin toasted and topped with ham or bacon. On top of this sit two poached eggs and Hollandaise sauce is poured over it. In the 1860s, Mrs. LeGrand Benedict, a regular customer of Delmonico's, the very first restaurant or public eating room established in the United States, wanted something different to the items on the menu.

She discussed this with the Chef Charles Ranhofe and he devised this delicious dish for her.

Answer: Bread

Arepas is a type of bread made with maize flour. It can be baked, pan fried or grilled all using the same basic dough mixture. It can be made thick so that it can be split open or in a thinner more crispy version, and can be used to make sandwiches. It is often served with cheese, fermented milk or avocado.

Answer: Cereal

Turkish breakfast is served with tea. Although the Turkish people are coffee lovers, in the morning tea is definitely the beverage of choice. The Turkish breakfast is quite a large spread. There is bread (normally white) and a white cheese similar to feta. Boiled eggs or omelettes are served along with black and/or green olives with sliced tomatoes or cucumbers. Jam, honey and butter are also provided. Sometimes sucuk, which is a spicy sausage, is served fried with eggs.

Answer: Lamb chop

English breakfast, also known as a big fry up, is full of calories. Few people would still eat it everyday, but it is an indulgence on week-ends and holidays. It usually consists of bacon, sausages and eggs - fried, poached or scrambled. Additions may be tomatoes, mushrooms or baked beans, but not lamb chops. There is also bread and/or toast butter and jam, and a cup of tea or coffee.

Answer: John Harvey Kellogg

John Harvey Kellogg was a doctor in a sanitarium in Battle Creek Michigan which was opened by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. He invented cornflakes as a healthy food for his patients. The sanitarium was like a hospital, spa, hydrotherapy clinic and hotel all in one. Kellogg not only treated the rich people who could afford to pay the hotel prices, but also the poor who could not afford medical attention.

Answer: China

Although China is now the main producer of grapefruit it is believed to have originated in Barbados, and is a cross breed between the pomelo fruit and the sweet orange. Grapefruit is considered a superfood because it is very high in benefits including vitamins A, C and B6, and also a good source for calcium, magnesium and iron, but very low in calories.

Answer: Muesli

Doctor Bircher-Benner was a Swiss/German physician and researcher who discovered the great benefits to health of eating fresh fruit and vegetables. In 1897 he opened a clinic in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, called Vital Force, where he treated many notable celebrities of the time including Tsar Nicholas II, Sir Stafford Cripps (former chancellor of the exchequer of the UK) and Golda Meir (prime minister of Israel).

His original recipe includes rolled oats, grated apple, sweetened condensed milk, nuts and lemon juice.

These days muesli contains a much larger proportion of oats to fruit and nuts and can be served with any kind of milk or fruit juice.

Answer: A pancake

An uttapam is a thick pancake with toppings all cooked in a batter made from rice flour and mungo beans which have been soaked overnight. The toppings can be any mix of vegetables, nearly always including onion. Tomato uttapam is especially enjoyed by children. It is served with chutney.

Answer: All of these

A healthy breakfast should include something with fibre like bread or cereal. Protein, such as eggs fish meat or beans, is important to keep you satisfied until lunchtime. Unsaturated fat found in low fat spread, olive or rape seed oil as well as avocado or nuts is important as well. Finally some fruit, vegetable or fruit or vegetable juice provides essential vitamins.