Precautions for eating vegetables, misunderstandings about eating vegetables

We eat vegetables every day, but many people have a misunderstanding about eating vegetables. This way of eating is very unhealthy.

Tips for eating vegetables: Do not store vegetables for a long time. After washing them, stir-fry them over high heat and then eat them immediately.

Fresh vegetables

If you buy and store vegetables at home without eating them, they will slowly lose some vitamins. For example, spinach will lose 84% of its vitamin C if it is left at 20 degrees Celsius for one day. If you want to preserve vegetables, you should store them in a dark, ventilated, and dry place.

Don’t eat cooked food right away

——Some people like to cook the dishes in advance to save time, and then keep them warm in the pot until everyone arrives or eat them hot at the next meal. In fact, the vitamin B1 in vegetables can lose 25% during the warming process after cooking. If the cooked cabbage is warmed for 15 minutes, it will lose 20% of vitamin C. If it is kept warm for 30 minutes, it will lose another 10%. If it is kept warm for 1 hour, it will lose another 20%. If the vitamin C in the green vegetables loses 20% during the cooking process, loses 25% when dissolved in the soup, and loses another 20% if it is kept warm on the fire for another 15 minutes, a total of 65%. Then there will be little vitamin C left from the green vegetables.

Eat vegetables without soup

——Many people like to eat vegetables but don’t like to drink vegetable soup. In fact, when cooking, most vitamins are dissolved in the vegetable soup. Take vitamin C as an example. After the cabbage is fried, 70% of the vitamin C will be dissolved in the vegetable soup. When fresh peas are boiled in water for 3 minutes, 50% of the vitamin C will be dissolved in the soup.

Cut vegetables first and then rinse them

——When washing and cutting vegetables, if you cut them before rinsing them, a large amount of vitamins will be lost into the water.

Prefer to eat stir-fried dishes

——Some people prefer vegetables fried with meat in order to lose weight and avoid fat. Recently, researchers have found that the cells of vegetables rich in water are full of air, while the cells of meat are full of water, so vegetables are more likely to absorb fat. A dish of fried vegetables often contains more fat than a dish of fried fish or fried ribs.

Eat vegetarian food but not meat

—— Nowadays, more and more people are vegetarians, which is undoubtedly beneficial to prevent arteriosclerosis. However, it is not a blessing to eat vegetarian food without paying attention to the combination. Modern science has found that there are at least four major harms of being a vegetarian: first, lack of necessary cholesterol, and the right amount of cholesterol has anti-cancer effects; second, insufficient protein intake, which is a risk factor for digestive tract tumors; third, insufficient riboflavin intake, which will lead to vitamin deficiency; fourth, severe zinc deficiency, which is a very important trace element to ensure the body's immune function, and zinc is generally lacking in vegetables.