Healthy Cooking Practices
Healthy cooking begins with the good, healthy ingredients that you use to prepare your meals. Do you know the way you cook can impact nutrients in your food? these healthy cooking tips will help you get the most nutrition from foods:
• Cutting vegetables into small pieces and exposing them to air before cooking may result in loss of vitamins especially vitamin c and b vitamins like thiamine. Therefore cut your veggies in larger chunks and cook them immediately to prevent loss of these essential nutrients.
• Rice loses a lot of water soluble nutrients if you rinse it many times before cooking and draining excess water after cooking. Wash your rice with minimum water and cook in just sufficient amounts so that all water is absorbed and no nutrients with excess water gets discarded.
• Did you know cooking eggs helps in destroying “avidin”, a substance present in egg white which binds biotin (vitamin b7) and makes it unavailable for your body? so now you know why you need to cook those eggs well before you eat them.
• Excessive heating of milk may be undesirable since lactose (natural milk sugars) reacts with proteins in the milk and reduces the protein quality besides causing browning of the milk.
• Did you know repeated heating of oils and fats during frying may lead to formation of trans fatty acids in oil.