Preparing fruits and vegetables adequately

Fruits and vegetables are the foods we put into our food and we usually eat often raw. Small organisms that are not seen, so it is necessary to manipulate the best way to not harm our health. This entry attempts to explain various steps we can take in our kitchen to eat healthy ...


The first major step is to wash all products in drinking water. Even fruits and vegetables with skins, such as bananas and oranges, should be washed to remove bacteria, pesticides or insects.It is desirable to soak the fruits and vegetables. Water can dissolve some nutrients, such as vitamin C.One of the best ways to prepare fruits and vegetables is to steam, because that vitamins do not have direct contact with the water.Vitamins better support high temperatures for short time at low temperatures for a prolonged period of cooking, so cooking in pressure cooker is a good method.Always preferable baking or, in case of cooking and to avoid losing the nutritional properties of the vegetables, without pelar.Otra best option cook vegetables without cooking them to lose their nutritional properties to the wrapper is roast , wrapping them in foil lightly sprayed with olive oil.Roasted vegetables grilled or broiled considerably lose their vitamins while enhancing flavor.To boil fresh vegetables use minimal amount of water and cut into chunks, to better preserve the vitamins they have.There are desirable terms recalentamientos.En fruit, the best way is to take nutritional eating it raw.To preserve fruits is essential to keep them in a cool place, preferably in the refrigerator. Do not be frozen.Neither should be stored for long periods of time because most fruits lose much of their properties, including vitamins. To this rule there is an exception: the plums increase its vitamin C during ripening.Canned significantly increase the sugar content. However, they retain almost all other properties except vitamin C, which is lost by heat.