Scientists reveal another meal for the snowman "Otsi"!

A recent study published Friday (July 13, 2018) reports that the last meal found with a mummy, dating back 5,000 to 300 years, is known as the "snowman". This meal contained a significantly higher amount of fat with cereals. About 40 researchers from around the world, including Australian scientists, have analyzed the well-preserved contents of the stomach, which has only recently been discovered during the stomach's movement during the process. Embalming .

This study was the first in-depth analysis of the content of the ice man's equipment, providing a rare glimpse of ancient eating and nutritional habits dating back to the Bronze Age, to the time when humans passed from fishermen to farmers. In 2009, an attempt was made to analyze the contents of the mummy. "The material of the stomach was compared to samples from the small intestine, which were analyzed earlier, and are very well preserved," said Frank Mexner, a researcher at the Yurak Institute of Mumatology research in Bolzano, Italy. He added that they also contain large amounts of unique biomolecules such as fats, which gave the team new systematic opportunities to answer questions about the snowman's diet.

Snow Man, also known as Otsi, was naturally preserved in the Italian Alps in 1991 by German tourists. Previous tests revealed that he was forty-five when he was killed, with the head of an arrow left pierced his left shoulder, causing bleeding to death. His stomach was full of food when he ate, which meant he could have eaten a little before being attacked.

According to the study published in the journal Carnet Biology, researchers found a quantity of meat for wild goats, deer, fern and a type of wheat (only one grain). The study showed that half of the contents of the stomach was large, perhaps because of the consumption of goat meat, which was treated before eating, where there were particles of coal in the stomach. The analysis indicated that the wild meat was freshly eaten or perhaps dried and that the last meal was well balanced for a person at these early stages. A previous study of mummies had shown some form of atherosclerosis, probably due to too much fat in foods .

While the fat-rich diet was unexpected, the researchers said it was "perfectly logical" given the rugged alpine environment in which the snowman would have lived. Albert Zink, also at the Yurak Research Institute for Studies on the Mummy, says that the high and cold environment presents a particular challenge to human physiology and requires an ideal food supply to avoid fast hunger and the loss of energy. "The snowman seemed to realize that fat was an excellent source of energy." The mummy is currently kept at the Museum of Antiquities of South Tyrol in Italy