Family meals are very important because it is not only a place where the whole family gather to connect with the feelings of members but also helps provide nutrients and energy for each person. Therefore, you should pay attention to avoid bad habits, which are harmful to human health during food processing.
Do not overheat when cooking
Some women often have a habit of putting oil in the pan and turning on the stove until the oil is smoke, so that the ingredients can be processed. You should quit this habit immediately because when the cooking oil gets too hot, the oil molecules will be broken down, and the beneficial antioxidants in the oil are destroyed. At the same time, oil that is too hot will form harmful compounds. You should let the oil heat moderately and then cook the food to make sure the nutrients in the oil remain intact.
Oil should only boil moderately when cooking.
Reheat food several times
To save time, many people often have the habit of cooking a lot of food at a time and put it in the refrigerator to preserve, when you want to use it, just take it out to warm. Or the food left over from the previous meal is reheated and used for the next meal. This habit is extremely harmful to human health. Because reheating food will lose the inherent nutrients, and some substances in the food will be converted into harmful substances. When eating reheated foods over and over again, we can get dizzy, tired, etc. So when you cook, you should pay attention to adjust the amount of food just enough for your family to avoid excess.
Reheating the food many times will lose the nutrients that are beneficial to your health.
Use old oil for food preparation
Using old oil to prepare food is a habit of many people. Cooking oil after being fried at a high temperature and then used again for frying is easy to create harmful compounds. Not only that, after the first frying, the burned residue of old food will be left behind after the first frying, this is also the cause of harm to human health. Ideally, when frying food, you should use only a moderate amount of oil and never reuse the old oil.
Using old cooking oil to prepare food creates toxic compounds.
Improper thawing of meat
According to scientific studies, meat should only be stored in the freezer for about a week. If we store meat for too long, it will degenerate. Besides, you should know how to thaw meat so as not to lose its freshness and not form harmful substances in the meat. Specifically, thawing meat at high temperatures diffuses the meat, creating a favorable environment for bacteria to form. If we thaw meat at room temperature bacteria can still enter. So the best practice is to thaw the meat by moving it from the freezer to the cooler and waiting for it to thaw before cooking.
Improper defrosting of meat degrades.
These are small but damaging habits that many families have. Please pay attention to overcome to protect the health of yourself and your family.