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What happens when the food is cooked?
When food is cooked several chemical & biological changes take place, Cooking causes degradation of fibres in food making it soft and easy to eat, it also alters the chemical composition of various nutrients making them easy to digest. However cooking for long time at high temperatures depletes its nutritive value.
Is cooking food bad for you?
It’s better to eat certain foods cooked, as raw versions may contain harmful bacteria. Cooking food effectively kills bacteria that may cause food-borne illness ( 27 ). However, fruits and vegetables are generally safe to consume raw, as long as they have not been contaminated.
What are advantages and disadvantages of cooking food?
The advantage of cooking makes food tastier softer tender and easy to digest. and disadvantage is overcooking being the loss of nutrients, colour and flavour.
What is advantage and disadvantage of cooking?
food first proper cooking makes food more tasty second cooking also makes food softer tender and easy to digest. you can make a list of foods which have to be cooked. and made soft before eating. third some food items may contain germs cooking kills these germs and makes them harmless.
What would happen to food if it was not cooked?
For many foods, the cooking process gives them the characteristics we associate with edible food, which are generated through an intricate series of physical and chemical changes that occur when foods are heated. Therefore, without cooking, these changes could not occur and many foods would be deemed inedible.
Can you get sick from food that has been cooked?
Whether you’ll get sick will also be determined by whether or not you fully cooked your food. Many bacteria can be killed during the cooking process. For instance, if you’ve made a boiled stew or soup and cooked your meat for a while, you may not get sick. However, heat isn’t a guaranteed way to prevent food poisoning.
How does cooking affect the absorption of nutrients?
Cooking food improves digestion and increases absorption of many nutrients (1, 2). For example, protein in cooked eggs is 180\% more digestible than in raw eggs (3). However, several key nutrients are reduced with some cooking methods.
Why do we cook meat?
We cook meat to make it nicer to eat because it is more tender and flavorful than raw meat, and to make it safe to eat by killing harmful bacteria that may be on the meat. In order to be become better at cooking meat, it helps to know what meat consists of and what happens to it when we cook it.