What are the reasons why many foods are cooked?
Thermal transformation during cooking makes many foods easier to digest or chew. This is the case for products rich in fiber (such as cereals or legumes) or starch, but also meat. Taking the time to cook them saves a lot of energy spent digesting them.
What is the best cooking for your health?
To stay healthy, choosing to cook your food at a low temperature (around 60°C) without adding fat is the best option. At this cooking temperature, the vitamins, mineral salts and trace elements of the food are perfectly preserved.
What is the purpose of cooking?
Cooking makes it possible to modify the taste, flavor, appearance, color, texture, volume, weight, or nutritional qualities of the food. It modifies its chemical and physical structure and can thus make it assimilable, nutritious or more tasty, and sometimes eliminates toxicity.
What are the 3 types of cooking?
We count 3 main categories of types of cooking: cooking by concentration, cooking by expansion, and mixed cooking.
What are the benefits of baking?
The benefits of cooking food
Cooking makes it possible to: Make possible the consumption of certain foods such as foods containing starch (pasta, rice, pizza dough, etc.). Without cooking these foods cannot be digested and therefore cannot nourish the body.
Why cook vegetables?
The heat destroys the fragile vitamins in proportion to the cooking time and the rise in temperature. Rapid steaming in a steamer basket (to prevent the minerals from dissolving in the water) is the best way to retain the nutritional qualities of vegetables.
How to make a soup while keeping the vitamins?
Brown your vegetables in a pan in a little butter or vegetable oil (add garlic, shallot, spices at this time, for those who want a tastier soup). Pour already boiling water over your vegetables! This will limit the cooking time and therefore the loss of vitamins!
What are the benefits of steaming?
Steam cooking is slow cooking which does not harm the food by overheating it. Thus respected, foods keep their nutrients, vitamins, mineral salts, trace elements… Vegetables keep their color, their natural taste, their texture and their nutrients.
How to cook food properly?
In the oven: low temperature and en papillote
For this, the oven is turned on at a thermostat between 60°C and 80°C. Food can also be cooked en papillote, in parchment paper or a specific container. This technique allows you to preserve many benefits, without adding fat.
What is a cooking mode?
From broiling to steaming to frying, foods can cook with dry heat, moist heat, or a combination of both. In all cases, heat is used, but heat affects the food in a different way.
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