the same as conventional cooking?

Many things taste the same, some things taste better cooked in a microwave, and it’s much quicker. I just wondered if they destroy nutrients in food though?
I do conventional cooking as well but often use the microwave for quickness, or combination of the two methods.

Best reply by Silly-of-nilly:

NO WAY

the only form of cooking that retains the “goodness” is raw cooking. All the enzymes are cooked out when you cook food over 113 f. I your concerned about nutrition i recommend eating a few meals a week that are raw, and filling not just a salad.

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Does cooking food in a microwave still retain the goodness?

     It is a scientific fact that different food groups are digested differently, in different places in the system and using different chemicals, even different times. So in order to have a digestive system running efficiently, it is a good idea to check out what we are eating with what. Some of our foods, like starchy groups require an alkaline environment while certain others, like protein foods, require an acidic medium (Hydrochloric acid) to complete digestion. If both are taken in one meal, the stomach cannot digest all the food, and the result is a sodden, sorry chemical reaction that takes away all the digestion we need, the food eaten having done nothing but caused toxification of the system. Undigested food rots inside the stomach causing release of toxic gases, and over a long term, causes serious disorders, the roots of which we may then be unable to trace. Constipation, nervous disorders and a slowdown of the general metabolism is bound to occur.

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     To combat these situations, the following guidelines must be kept in mind while planning a meal:

     1. NEVER eat starch and acids (sugars such as juice or fruits) in one meal. For instance, white bread and citrus juices cannot be digested together. Fats and sugars (fruits) should not be mixed in any one meal. Simply put, one should never eat cereals, bread, potatoes or other such foods with berries, oranges, grapefruit, pineapple, or other acid foods.So there goes the classic English breakfast, as well as the All American one. Continue Reading »

     We all know the importance of eating healthy foods for their vitamin and mineral content. However, in recent years, scientists have discovered that there are hundreds of substances in food that have healing and disease prevention properties.

     So why, if there are foods that will heal many of our common ailments, have we not heard more about them? Maybe it’s because, just as we’ve become a fast food society, we’ve also become a fast cure society. We’re always looking for the easy way to cure and prevent diseases by just popping a pill.

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     Being a well populated country, but not rich, the food is based on aliments like rice and green groceries, that are not expensive at all, that are fueling and most importantly, they can be prepared in a lot of different ways and methods. The meat is used less because of the high prices, but in change, sea fruits that also represent a high amount of proteins, are very important in Chinese menus and are not so expensive.

     The Chinese ways of cooking are not, as many could think, a rapidly, cheap and of a lower quality job, No, not at all, instead, cooking Chinese food could be called ‘art’!

     Taking into account the surface of the country and the climatic differences, there are four principal categories: the North kitchen, rich in goat and ewe meat, seasoned with vinegar, garlic and leek in order to neutralize the smell of the others; the South kitchen, characterized by a sweeter taste than all the others – using a lot of rice, vegetables, fish, chicken and pork meat, these being prepared in steams bath or hot oil to make them as crispy as possible; the East kitchen is known for the very lent ways of preparing the food, a food that is based on fish, Soya sausages; and the West kitchen that is the more of the Asiatic countries very spiced and seasoned.

     How do they cut the aliments? Continue Reading »