Four Ways Eating Mexican Food Benefits Your Health

When it comes to going out to eat, there’s no denying that Mexican restaurants are a popular choice for Americans. As of 2011, there are 38,000 Mexican restaurants dispersed all across the American landscape.

It is believed that Mexican cuisine was derived from what the Mayans prepared as far as 2000 years ago. They expertly lived off the land, to sustain themselves with beans, corn, peppers, fruits and chocolate, as well as chicken, turkey, duck, and later pork.

Today, one out of every 10 restaurants in the United States sells Mexican food, making it the most popular style of international cuisine in the country. In fact, there are more than 67,000 restaurants that serve a burrito.

Need further proof of the popularity of Mexican cuisine in the United States? The invention of Tex-Mex (which occurred in the 1940s) is one good example of integration of American and Mexican culture and fusion of food. Furthermore, tortillas have been outselling hot dog buns since 2010 and