Good or Bad For You?
We’ve all heard that Italians don’t get heart attacks even when they’re over-weight because they use olive oil in their foods instead of regular vegetable oil and margarine which clogs arteries. We may come to conclude well, then this must mean that olive oil is great for us and we can and should start frying [...]
No commentsCooking Vegetables Can Preserve Their Nutrients
In a finding that defies conventional culinary wisdom, researchers in Italy report that cooking vegetables can preserve or even boost their nutritional value in comparison to their raw counterparts, depending on the cooking method used. Their study is scheduled for the Dec. 26 issue of Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Nicoletta Pellegrini and colleagues note [...]