Cook food with microwaves that lose nutrients

Microwave Oven (Photo: Panasonic)

Cooking food with microwaves will lose nutrients in vegetables, while steaming them up is the best method to keep nutrients in vegetables. As for cooking food with pressure cookers, cooking in a boiled manner also makes vegetables lose a lot of nutrients.

Researchers at the CEBAS-CSIC National Institute of Science, Spain, said that when steaming vegetables, antioxidants are almost intact, but when heated by microwaves, oxidants are almost destroyed. Because when cooking, the heat from the vegetable is very large.

Other cooking methods such as pressure cooking, boiling, they do not destroy antioxidants like microwaves, but most precious compounds will mix with water during cooking, and more than half of the compounds Antioxidants in vegetables will be destroyed.