How to cook the mushrooms from the point of view of science
Food / / December 19, 2019
A group of scientists from Spain found the best way to cook mushrooms without compromising their nutritional value.
There are many different ways to cook mushrooms. However, some of them are not the best way affect the usefulness of the product, rich in fiber, vitamins and protein.
How to and how not to cook mushrooms
Recent studiesEffect of different cooking methods on nutritional value and antioxidant activity of cultivated mushrooms. scientists compared the nutrient content in mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, and oyster mushroom raw or cooked form. The researchers were able to find out how different cooking methods - steaming, roasting in a pan, cooking on the grill and in the microwave - impact on the nutritional properties of these types of fungi.
Scientists found that the boil and cook the mushrooms - not the best idea. When cooking is lost vitamins and frying in oil breaks down protein and fat content rises sharply mushrooms.
The researcher Irene Roncero concluded
Nutritional properties of mushrooms are better preserved when they are grilled or microwaved.
From the point of view of the nutritional value of the grill and microwave oven are the most gentle cooking tools, because you can save a maximum of nutrients. Both of these methods lead to minor loss of nutritional value fungi, as well as to an increase in antioxidant activity in the finished product.
The researchers say that adding small amounts of oil when frying on the grill will not hurt. If you use a little bit olive oilOn caloric finished product is almost not affected.