5 Foods that are Healthier when Eaten Cooked

You may have heard that raw eating of foods can give you thousands of health benefits. But is it for every food you eat? Various foods can give the best nutrients when they cooked properly. Sometimes, cooking on the right flame not kill the nutrients but it helps in breaking down the nutrients which makes it easy to digest and further provide the maximum health benefits. Be it frying, baking, roasting or grilling- the correct flame can never diminish the number of nutrients and make your food tasty and appealing without compromising the nutrients.

Here are 5 foods that are healthier when eaten cooked.

Spinach: Spinach is the leafy green that we all eat. Spinach is packed with a lot of nutrients but various nutritionists said that cooked spinach can give all of these nutrients and it will become easy to absorb calcium and iron from the cooked form of it. Cooking spinach under high flame can break down its nutrients while making it easy to digest in the human body. So, now, think twice whenever you feel like consuming raw spinach in the form of salad.

Carrots: The reddish-orangish hues of carrots are almost everyone’s favourite. Carrots are rich in various nutrients like fibre, Vitamin K, potassium, antioxidants and beta carotene. Cooked carrots are easy to digest as well as it enhances the benefits by boosting the amounts of beta-carotene. This antioxidant is great in giving you good eye health. Doesn’t it look like that your mommy’s idea of boiling it wasn’t so silly?

Asparagus: These greeny sticks are filled with plentiful of nutrients. Various studies said that cooking these sticks can be more beneficial to human health and it also increases the number of various nutrients by 16%. Not only this but cooking it also makes it easy to digest and kills all the toxicities it carries. So, just a quick stir of these asparagus in your pan and add some freshly squeezed lemon juice on it and you are all ready to consume the goodness of ample nutrients.

Mushrooms: We all know that mushrooms are edible! But there are chances that they might contain toxicities and can harm the body like nothing else. Also, they have a hard structure which makes them tough to digest. Cooking mushroom won’t kill any of its nutrients and it also makes it firm and easy to digest. Moreover, heating it over the flame ensures that they are free from the toxins and are safe to consume.

Tomatoes: This one is really surprising! We all eat raw tomatoes and also add it in our salads or sandwiches, but it enhances the quantity of nutrient lycopene (helps in fighting cancer) by 30% when it is correctly tossed over the heat. So, when it comes to tomatoes, just bake it or toss it over heat and consume the right nutrients from it. Don’t you feel like this makes whole wheat pasta with tomato sauce a must-try?

Over to you

Though many foods give maximum benefits when consumed in its raw form, there are also some which are hard to digest and can fill up your body with toxic elements. Above written foods enhance its nutritional profile when consumed cooked. Never forget to read how to consume foods to get the maximum benefits.