Serving certain foods together can intensify their effects. For example, vitamin C helps extract more iron from iron-rich foods, so it is recommended that you eat brown rice, a source of iron, with broccoli, a good source of vitamin C. In addition, it's best to prepare broccoli in the least amount of water possible. Water will draw the vitamin C from the food source, and when the water is discarded, so is the vitamin C. Think low time, low heat and low water, when preparing broccoli and other veggies and steam or briefly roast them in the oven. Soup is the exception when preparing veggies since the water collecting the vitamin C is actually part of the meal.
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