Meats, Poultry, and Seafood
Cooking meats gently enough to retain vitamins and minerals while reducing the saturated fat content is tricky business. The leanest cuts of red meats, which are the most healthful, usually are prepared using long cooking times and moist heat, such as pot roasting, stewing, and braising. These methods result in greater loss [...]
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Foods must be prepared sensibly to keep their flavor and food value. Unwise preparation and cooking methods can destroy valuable vitamins, ruin food texture, or add too much unnecessary fat, sugar, or salt.
One of the most common, unnecessary cooking practices is adding salt or sugar to food. Many cooks automatically pour salt, or sometimes sugar, [...]
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Science and modern technology, including improved transportation methods and better refrigeration, have made many popular varieties of fruit available year round. Exotic and tropical fruits also appear routinely in supermarkets. The best choices, however, are local, seasonal varieties, which offer good flavor and high nutrient value at a low cost.
Most fruits are rich sources of [...]
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When choosing fresh vegetables, avoid those that are limp and tired looking. “Old” vegetables cannot be revived by stir-frying, boiling, steaming, or baking. Although most of the common vegetables are available year round, in season they tend to have the best food value, flavor, texture, and price.
In general, vegetables are good sources of vitamins, minerals, [...]
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A nineteenth-century housewife would find the modern supermarket truly overwhelming. Not only is there an endless smorgasbord of canned, boxed, bagged, frozen, and convenience foods, dairy products, fresh produce, meats, and breads, but today what the shopper sees is [...]
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