ICMR Guidelines For Healthy Cooking: Follow These 9 Steps To Retain Nutrients In Food – TheHealthSite

ICMR in its latest dietary guidelines has provided insights on how cooking food with a closed lid is much healthier than other methods.

Do you cook your food without a closed-lid? A new research states that this may not be a very healthy and sustainable way of cooking. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) recently stated that cooking your food without a closed lid will strip the food of its nutrients. The medical research body did a deep dive on the healthy ways of cooking and how you can retain most of the nutrients in the food. Many families may already be aware of the benefits of closed-lid cooking but in case you are not aware, read on.

Benefits Of Closed-Lid Cooking: ICMR Guidelines

Here are the healthy cooking guidelines provided by The Indian Council of Medical Research ICMR:

1. Closed-lid cooking is a sustainable way of cooking food. It saves a lot of natura resource such as gas or electricity if you are using an induction cooker.
2. It save a lot of time as food cooks faster when its lid is closed.
3. Cooking will lead to some amount of nutrient loss but if you use the correct method this can be avoided. Closed-lid cooking retains all the nutrients of the food.
4. Exposure to air may lead to nutrient loss while cooking but not if you close the lid.
5. ICMR guidelines recommend the use of steam cooking or pressure cooking instead of deep frying or roasting the food.
6. Steam and pressure cookers help cook food faster, use less fuel and retain nutrients.
7. Steaming the food also will help increase the antioxidants and polyphenols in green vegetables.
8. ICMR also recommends the use of microwave cooking instead of other methods. Microwaving also ensure the retention of more vitamins and minerals.
9. Boiling and pressure cooking is good for health because this method helps improve the quality of certain foods like pulses. It also helps destroy the anti-nutritional aspects. It also re4quires very less water and oil to cook.

5 Disadvantages Of Open-Lid Cooking

Here are 5 reason why you must always follow the above mentioned guidelines:

1. Open-lid cooking may require excess oil use which will eventually make the food more unhealthy.
2. Open-lid cooking is time consuming.
3. Open-lid cooking will lead to massive nutrient loss. The more you cook your food the more nutrient you will lose.
4. Open-lid cooking is also not sustainable because it may need for fuel and electricity.
5. Foods like pulses will especially lose its nutrients faster if you do not cover them while cooking.

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