Does microwaving food remove its nutritional value? Nope!

[imakneegrow]

Does microwaving food remove its nutritional value? - CNN.com

The verdict: If you do it right, cooking food in the microwave is one of the best ways to retain your food's vitamins and minerals

 

[PICK3]

cool story, bro

 

[nangiggles]

I felt like I was there keeping moisture

 

[redsamurai]

a CNN article about another company also owned by Turner....sounds legit.

 

[Jack steel]

Interesting, but did they actually test the food somehow to know this? Because regardless of it being short and exposed to heat for less time, it's still cooking it with microwaves. I'm no expert but that has to have some different effect on the food. It's not just heat.

 

[musclemom]

Same people who said taking multivitamins is useless, too, right?

B'sides, microwaved raw food tastes and looks like shit. Only thing microwaves are good for is boiling water and reheating leftovers.

 

[Jack steel]

Same people who said taking multivitamins is useless, too, right?

B'sides, microwaved raw food tastes and looks like shit. Only thing microwaves are good for is boiling water and reheating leftovers.

Agreed. All of it.

 

[imakneegrow]

Don't shoot the messenger, guys. Personally I prefer my vegetables raw. However, for speed I will (many times) microwave a yam/sweet potato/potato.

 

[musclemom]

Don't shoot the messenger, guys. Personally I prefer my vegetables raw. However, for speed I will (many times) microwave a yam/sweet potato/potato.

OMG, STFU. I've forgotten more about cooking than you'll ever know.

And any nutritional information you know probably comes off the side of a Captain Crunch box.

 

[imakneegrow]

OMG, STFU. I've forgotten more about cooking than you'll ever know.

And any nutritional information you know probably comes off the side of a Captain Crunch box.

Cool

 

[PICK3]

OMG, STFU. I've forgotten more about cooking than you'll ever know.

And any nutritional information you know probably comes off the side of a Captain Crunch box.

olololololol! @ kneegrow p'wnt!!!

 

[imakneegrow]

olololololol! @ kneegrow p'wnt!!!

Not

 

[cindylou]

yeah

 

[nobreaksbetween]

I don't think a hot pocket could possibly lose any more nutritional value...

My random add to the conversation for the day

 

[imakneegrow]

Haha hot pockets ... How nutritious!


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[mrplunkey]

In terms of preserving any organic compound's structure, I'd say:

Microwave > Steaming > Convection/Conduction

Picture a 250F degree grill *. That isn't a precise 250F degrees -- it follows a Boltzmann distribution that includes temperatures that are much greater than 250F. Those higher temperatures can drive reactions that wouldn't run at 250F.

Now picture a microwave. That radiation is highly selective to water molecules. And while molecules with similar bond-lengths and resonance properties may be present, the odds are against that happening. So let's say a water molecule is heavily irradiated. It's simply going to boil-off the food being cooked.

* I intentionally chose a very low grill temperature to illustrate my point. In practice, someone would use a 350F or more temperature, which would produce some levels of excitation far beyond the base 350F.

 

[PICK3]

In terms of preserving any organic compound's structure, I'd say:

Microwave > Steaming > Convection/Conduction

Picture a 250F degree grill *. That isn't a precise 250F degrees -- it follows a Boltzmann distribution that includes temperatures that are much greater than 250F. Those higher temperatures can drive reactions that wouldn't run at 250F.

Now picture a microwave. That radiation is highly selective to water molecules. And while molecules with similar bond-lengths and resonance properties may be present, the odds are against that happening. So let's say a water molecule is heavily irradiated. It's simply going to boil-off the food being cooked.

* I intentionally chose a very low grill temperature to illustrate my point. In practice, someone would use a 350F or more temperature, which would produce some levels of excitation far beyond the base 350F.

I was hard as fug at Boltzmann distribution



just sayin'