Historical of namprik

**Professionals of agriculture believe that the capsicums or called Chili and Prik (Thailand) came to Thailand about 400 years ago. So,Namprik (chili sauce) should be assumed a first plant that people of Siam (In the past, Thailand called Siam) adopt the chili suitable for the cultural Thai food. Make use of namprik to relate the important resources of us those are rice, fish, and vegetable in the country. namprik can make we eat more vegetables and the taste of rice and fish are deliciously more. An interesting is the valued nutrition when we eat rice, vegetables with namprik that we will get carbohydrate from rice, protein from fish and many vitamins and element from assortment of vegetable in an area.
**The present time of new trend and the free trade policy under the policy of WTO (World Trade Organization) and the agreements of FTA and other many countries are impacted to the cultural Thai consumption.
**The new trend of consumption makes the cultural consumption of Thai change. Especially, the necessity of eating Jung food in the rush hour work, the cultural food of West nations (Fast food) through all foods ready to eat, such as canned food and quick noodle.
**The searchers discover the younger people decrease to eat namprik and the amount of people who can prick namprik is decreased. The problem remarkable increase caused consumes more meat and fat. The research result within country between 2539-2544 finds the children of age below 6 years is increased fat 40 percentages.
**At present, the amount of People who until eat namprik eat a few kinds of namprik .The favorable namprik is namprik kapi(namprik shrimp paste) 54.5 %,namprik plara(namprik fermented fish)12.6%,and orther namprik noom, ,namprink tadang namprik platoo namprik narok and namprik ong.
**In fact, Thailand has plentifully kinds of namprik. According to the recourses of food project within not much of months and research in 35 areas, can gather 191 kinds of namprik.The free trade policy ,especially in agriculture is impacted to ingredients of namprik and Thai food are differenced. For an example, China garlic and Chaina onion are imported to Thailand and to be an ingredient in namprik and somtum(a sour relish with sliced papaya) in Thai kitchen. The Thai farmers about more than thousands who used to plant garlic need to plant other plants.
**The important thing is when we are realized many usefulness of namprik,we will realize kindness of agriculturalists, farmers , fishermen and other rural people in Thailand for keep natural resources, original Thai food and Thai cultural.
**Next I will mention to many kinds of namprik.