Optimize your Diet
Make the most of your meals
Do you know that there are nutrients that improve nutrietnes absocrción other? And what better food to cook them their nutritional values beneficial to your health? Well it’s time you learned! We give you clues that you optimize your diet with some very simple tips.
1. Orange juice, or whole orange:
The juice is more convenient to take and provides the same vitamins (if you take away) water and sugars in whole fruit, but you’re missing the juice powerful antioxidant flavonoids such as hesperidin present in the white membranes or glutathione.
2. What happens to the tomatoes with the cooking?
Curiously, far from losing properties, lycopene, an antioxidant approaches among other virtues decreases the incidence of prostate cancer, it focuses more on water loss during cooking involved.
3. Team up with allicin
Garlic is a star because the food contains a substance, allicin with many beneficial properties, antibacterial, and antioxidant. Occurs when chopped, but the heat is lost, so take it and avoid cooking oil.
4. What I can do to make the vegetables do not lose property in cooking?
There will always be loss of vitamins, but for example vitamin C is lost in smaller quantities at temperatures above 85 º (oxidase enzyme can not act in the heat) so do not put vegetables in cold water, add it directly to water keep cooking and boiling.
5. Any juice that has better properties than the food come from?
In general no, but for example with carrots occurs thinners can take extra to make a greater contribution of beta carotene to protect your skin from the sun, for example. Imporant to give the minimum sunlight as possible and be consumed immediately, if you’re not only drinking water with flavor.
6. Stealing food nutrients:
Coffee, tea, alcohol, refined sugars, excess fiber. can make some nutrients like iron and some vitamins are absorbed in smaller quantities. Drink your coffee or tea a half hour after eating and have no problems. As for fiber, not to go bas with recomendades amounts, 25 or 30 grams per day.