Myths and legends

[unixronin]

Everyone knows that microwave-cooked food isn't as nourishing, right?  Because microwaves destroy vitamins?  I've heard that one lots of times, and I'm sure you have too.

Turns out that not only is it not so, but the shoe's on the other foot.  You see, microwaves don't destroy vitamins.  What destroys vitamins is heat, and duration of heat.  Microwave ovens cook food more quickly than traditional cooking methods, and so they actually destroy less of the vitamins.

If you want to destroy the nutritional value of your vegetables, don't microwave them — boil them to mush.  You know, the traditional vegetable-cooking technique.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Steam your vegetables.

Steaming is possible in the microwave or on the stove top.

Tastier, retains or enhances nutritional value.

(Also -- wow?! That misconception is still around? WTF. I thought we'd gotten over the "microwaves are a new, fearsome technology that has bizarre, satanistic effects" meme some years ago,)