{"id":17735,"date":"2013-08-20T07:10:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T07:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2023-09-27T17:32:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T15:32:54","slug":"cooking-habits-that-favor-vitamin-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/en\/cooking-habits-that-favor-vitamin-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking habits that favor vitamin loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>How to cook to preserve vitamins in food<\/h3>\n<p>After talking about the importance of taking <a href=\"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/en\/vitamin-supplements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vitamin supplements<\/a> on the advice of an expert in nutrition, about bad habits that cause <a href=\"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/en\/vitamin-deficiency\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lack of vitamin<\/a> and about <a href=\"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/en\/3-basic-tips-to-keep-vitamins-from-healthy-foods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">how to store food to keep its vitamins<\/a>, today we closed our <strong>vitamins special<\/strong> with tips on how to cook fruits and vegetables to preserve their vitamins, minerals and nutrients.<\/p>\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1012\" title=\"Vitamin vegetables\" src=\"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/SHA-Cuisine-221.jpg\" alt=\"cooking to preserve vitamins\" width=\"700\" height=\"465\" \/><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>Vitamin loss when cooking<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Although we take the recommended amount of vegetables, fruits and legumes to get the vitamins and nutrients needed as part of our healthy diet, how to cook vegetables is essential to ensure adequate absorption of vitamins. For example, c<strong>ooking vegetables with too much water or high temperature favors the loss of vitamins<\/strong>. Moreover, if we take the vegetables to cook when the water is still cold they will also lose vitamins; the best is to put them once the water is boiling.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>3 ways to cook to preserve vitamins in food<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare <strong>stews with little water<\/strong> and over low heat. <strong>Cooking at low temperatures<\/strong>, in addition to preserving more vitamins and nutrients of vegetables and fruits, greatly enhances the flavor of food.<\/li>\n<li>Use often <strong>blanched in boiling wate<\/strong>r, in less than 1 minute we can have our vegetables ready for consumption with a crispy point and with many more vitamins. <strong>Better if we do not add salt<\/strong> to the water, because salt makes vitamins disappear more easily.<\/li>\n<li>Cooking <strong>quick stir fry over high heat<\/strong>. This will seal the walls of the vegetables to avoid loss of nutrients. If vegetables stab trimmed, it only takes a couple of minutes to have them ready. You must use the minimum oil possible and always trying to be organic and of the highest quality. It also can be replaced by <strong>naturally fermented soy sauce<\/strong> as in a a wok.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any other tip so that food vitamins are not lost?<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"3 basic tips to keep vitamins from healthy foods\" href=\"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/en\/3-basic-tips-to-keep-vitamins-from-healthy-foods\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">3 basic tips to keep vitamins from healthy foods<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Vitamin Deficiency\" href=\"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/en\/vitamin-deficiency\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vitamin Deficiency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Vitamin Supplements\" href=\"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/en\/vitamin-supplements\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vitamin Supplements<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Why to follow a dairy free diet\" href=\"https:\/\/shawellness.com\/shamagazine\/en\/why-to-follow-a-dairy-free-diet\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Why to follow a dairy free diet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to cook to preserve vitamins in food After talking about the importance of taking vitamin supplements on the advice of an expert in nutrition, about bad habits that cause lack of vitamin and about how to store food to keep its vitamins, today we closed our vitamins special with tips on how to cook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-nutrition"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cooking Habits for Vitamin Preservation | SHA Magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Elevate health with vitamin-rich foods. 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