What is the difference in meals in the Medieval Times and the 21 century?

Answer 1

Medieval food had no artificial preservatives, flavors, or colors. It was less refined spoiled more often . Bread grew stale, hard and molded quickly. There were few ways to preserve food from spoilages except salt and spices. Often spices were used to cover over the horrible flavor of spoiled meat. There was no refrigeration so cooked or raw meat could not be left lying around unless stored in the cold, dried, or salted. Other foods, such as porridge, were left in the pot and re-cooked daily until gone (Peas porridge in the pot, nine days old) The average medieval diet was also very limited and seasonal - fruits and vegetables (except those root vegetables that stored well in a celler or dried) were generally available only around the time they were harvested. There were no fresh tropical fruits in Medieval Europe such as bananas, papayas and mangos. Unless you had a cow or were very rich, you did not have milk every day. Also, in Medieval Europe they had no potatoes, tomatoes, pumpkins, or corn, as these were all imports from the Americas. The variety of foods were very limited. In contrast, in Modern times in Western European and North American countries, we have a plentiful supply of a tremendous variety of foods from all over the planet, and those foods that are not in season are readily available in cans, frozen, dehydrated, or aseptically packaged. Our food supply is, for the most part, free from contamination. It is, however, also generally loaded with artiaficial colors, flavors, preservatives, added vitamins, and other chemicals.

Answer 2

In the medieval time the food would be no where like the food we eat today because we can get food from all over the world imported were as they could not.

They would mainly have spit roasts as you mainly cooked for large groups of people and not just your family. They may have some spice brought to them but nothing like the imported foods of today.

Answer 3

in medieval times they didn't have as much food as we do, so probably food difference