Up to 93% of American homes have and/or use microwaves, so obviously there is something appealing about them. But do any of us really know the long-term health implications of repeated microwave use? And does microwaving food affect the nutrients it contains?... Although you may have heard that microwaves kill nutrition, that doesn’t seem to be true. Microwave ovens usually don’t destroy nutrients in food. And in some cases, preparing food in a microwave might actually promote nutrient retention. Nutrients are leached from food during any form of cooking, especially when the food is cooked for a long period of time with high amounts of water. So, for example, boiling carrots might strip nutrients much more drastically than microwaving them, because the carrots’ nutrients might get washed away with the boiling water. However, since we haven’t discovered all the compounds that make up food, we’ll likely never know all of the outcomes that microwaving has on nutrients. precisionnutrition/all-about-microwave-cooking
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:40:52 +0000
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