Lifestyles Ideas Management - Steaming for a healthier diet

Do you know that steaming your food helps to seal in nutrients that are usually lost through regular cooking methods like frying?

Steaming is a traditional cooking method that is ideal for today’s trend toward healthy eating as very little or no oil is used. It has great advantages over other cooking method as a far higher level of nutrients, vitamins and minerals is retained.
Compared to boiling, steaming results in more nutritious food particular vegetables, as
fewer nutrients are destroyed and leached away in the water.
For broccoli, 2 times of the nutrients are retained as compared to conventional method of cooking. What’s more steaming is simple and enhances the food’s natural flavor.

All sorts of food can be steamed, including all kinds of seafood, vegetables and even chicken. The fresher the ingredient, the better they are for steaming. Most people have the mindset that steamed foods are bland compared to stir-fry and deep-friend alternatives.
I am a vegetable lover and when the greens turn out, crunchy, nutritious and so irresistible.