Value of cooking

 Value of cooking

Advantages

Cooking has certain advantages as well as certain disadvantages. The advantages are that

·        the food is sterilized

·        the food is partly digested (as a result of hydrolysis)

·        It is made palatable which stimulates gastric secretion and thereby digestion. Addition of spices and condiments also serve this purpose.

Disadvantages

The disadvantages are

·        some quantity of vitamins and other nutrients  are lost

·        A small part of energy of the food (about 5%) is lost

·        It is time and fuel consuming

Hence, to avoid this loss of vitamin by cooking, certain amount of uncooked fresh food should be taken with meals like fruits, green vegetables etc.