What do sumo wrestlers eat?

© June Chua

Aug 19, 2006

You might wonder what the heck those gargantuan sumo wrestlers eat. You'd think ice cream and fast food but, that's just not so.


Although sumo wrestlers do imbibe in greasy food, apparently, their weight gain has little to do with hamburgers but with soup! The mainstay of the sumo wrestler's diet is a substantial soupy stew called chankonabe, which - in the Nagasaki dialect - translates to "Chinese pot stew."


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