While there is no such thing as right or wrong food-barring a few exceptions- there is a right and wrong way to eat them. How you eat your favourite food could make all the difference between filling your stomach and nourishing your body. Ultimately, it’s all about maximising nutritional value. The question is how do you do it.
1. Rice
No other food has a more battered reputation than rice. It strikes the fear of God in so many people. Rice is a wonderful food. A fitting accompaniment and a staple for so many cuisines. The best to have it is to, quite sily, take the starch out of it. Boil rice in a pan but do not pressure cook it or make it in a rice cookers as those methods of preparation do not enable the draining out of the starchy, fatty part of rice. To further reduce the glycemic index(GI) of your boiled rice, just add vegetables and sprouts to it. That will make it healthy and tasty.
2. Vegetables
The best way to get the most out of vegetables is to lightly saute them in an open pan instead of pulverising the nutritional value out of them by having more severe ways of cooking. Having said that, sauteing is not the backbone of most Indian cuisines, which involves usage of multiple methods like pressure cooking and frying. However if nutritional value is what you are after, it is best to ensure that vegetables are uncooked or maybe cooked, but not overcooked.
3. Eggs
Eggs are best eaten boiled, scrambled, half-fried or any which way you like but never, ever raw. It does not matter what your trainer told you, it is difficult to determine the degree of microbial contamination(post the Swine Flu epidemic) present in raw eggs. Cooking your egg destroys harmful bacteria, while ensuring the retention of its protein content. And tons of it. While egg whites are still healthier than yolks, always ensure your egg is properly done so that your health parameters are always on the sunny side up.
4. Fruits
Juicing fruit releases, the active sugary agent in the fruit and gives you a tall spike of blood sugar. The best way to get the fibrous, nutritional advantage of fruit is to eat it whole and nothing but the fruit. Try to eat a fruit in between meals as opposed to immediately before or after them. And if you are craving for the juice fix, opt for raw veggies instead.
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