Muktuk
Muktuk[1] is the traditional Inuit/Eskimo and Chukchi meal of frozen whale skin and blubber.
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Preparation [edit]
Muktuk is most often made from the skin and blubber of the Bowhead Whale, although the beluga and the narwhal are also used. Usually eaten raw, it is occasionally finely diced, breaded, deep fried, and served with soy sauce. It is also sometimes pickled.[2]
Nutrition [edit]
Muktuk has been found to be a good source of vitamin C, the epidermis containing up to 38 mg per 100 grams (3.5 oz).[3][4] Blubber is also a source of vitamin D. [5] Unfortunately, blubber also contains naturally-occurring PCBs, carcinogens that damage human nervous, immune and reproductive systems.[6][7]
Spellings [edit]
- Ikiilgin, Chukchi
- Maktaaq (ᒪᒃᑖᖅ), Siglitun, Kivalliq, Aivilik, North Baffin, East Baffin, South Baffin[8]
- Maktak (ᒪᒃᑕᒃ), Inupiat,[9] Siglitun, North Baffin[10]
- Maktaq, Inuinnaqtun,[11] Natsilingmiutut (Inuvialuktun)[12]
- Mattak, Labrador, Greenland[13]
- Mungtuk, Siberian Yupik
- Kimaq, Alutiiq/Sugpiaq
In some dialects, such as Inuinnaqtun, the word muktuk refers only to the edible parts of the whale's skin and not to the blubber.[11][14]
References [edit]
- ^ "muktuk". Asuilaak Living Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ http://news.travel.aol.com/2010/09/09/10-weirdest-foods-in-the-world/
- ^ Geraci, Joseph R.; and Smith, Thomas G. (1979-06). Vitamin C in the Diet of Inuit Hunters From Holman, Northwest Territories. Arctic, Volume 32, Number 2 (June 1979), pp 135-139. Retrieved from http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic32-2-135.pdf.
- ^ Fediuk, Karen; Hidiroglou, Nick; Madere, René; and Kuhnlein, Harriet V. (2002). Vitamin C in Inuit traditional food and women's diets. Journal of food composition and analysis. Retrieved from http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=13924632.
- ^ H.V. Kuhnlein, V. Barthet, A. Farren, E. Falahi, D. Leggee, O. Receveur, P. Berti, Vitamins A, D, and E in Canadian Arctic traditional food and adult diets, Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, Volume 19, Issues 6-7, Biodiversity and nutrition: a common path, September–November 2006, Pages 495–506, ISSN 0889-1575, doi:10.1016/j.jfca.2005.02.007. [1]
- ^ "Chemical Compounds Found In Whale Blubber Are From Natural Sources, Not Industrial Contamination".
- ^ "Japan warned on 'contaminated' blubber". BBC News. 2001-01-24. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
- ^ "maktaaq". Asuilaak Living Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ Uqaluktuat: 1980 Elders' Conference, Women's Session ISBN 1-881246-01-9
- ^ "maktak". Asuilaak Living Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ a b Ohokak, G.; M. Kadlun, B. Harnum. Inuinnaqtun-English Dictionary. Kitikmeot Heritage Society. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- ^ "maktaq". Asuilaak Living Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ "mattak". Asuilaak Living Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
- ^ "edible whale skin". Asuilaak Living Dictionary. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
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