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Brilio.net - You need to cook properly so that the dish turns out delicious. However, if you make a mistake in the cooking technique, apart from affecting the taste, the nutritional content of the food will also change, and may even decrease.
Some cooking methods, such as frying with a lot of oil or cooking at high temperatures for a long time, can reduce the nutritional value of food.
Water-soluble vitamins, such as vitamin C and some B vitamins, can be lost during high-temperature cooking. Not only that, excessive heat can damage protein structures and reduce the content of heat-sensitive vitamins.
Choosing the right cooking method is very important to maintain the nutritional content of food. Among the many cooking techniques, frying is one of the most frequently used methods to get crispy cooking results. Apart from that, frying is also often done to make food cook quickly.
Unfortunately, frying food is often associated with various diseases because the resulting food becomes fatty and full of oil. But you know what? Actually, food that is fatty after frying can be caused by careless technique.
A doctor named Grandika once explained this through his personal TikTok account. Reported by BrilioFood from TikTok dr.grandika on Friday (26/7), this doctor and counter creator once explained that the oil used to fry food is basically good for the body's health. Reporting from health.com, cooking oil can indeed be a source of healthy fats and nutrients.
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But, why do many people still associate that food fried in oil tends to be bad?
Furthermore, TikTok user @dr.grandika explained that this oil has a smoke point. So, when this smoke point occurs, the cooking oil will experience oxidation. It is at this stage that cooking oil, which was originally healthy, can have the opposite effect and have a bad impact on the body.
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Reporting from medicalnewstoday.com, oil reaches smoking point when it starts to decompose. Now, after passing that point, oil tends to release free radicals which can make food unhealthy because it causes damage to cells in the body.
So to avoid this, Doctor Grandika gives a simple trick for frying food to make it healthier. So, the smoke point of this oil can be prevented when the volume of fire used tends to be small. This will keep the molecules in the oil unchanged.
"When you eat food containing oil containing coconut milk that is cooked over high heat then of course changes occur in the molecules, which is what makes the food unhealthy," explained TikTok user @dr.grandika.
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In his upload, many TikTok netizens responded. Among the more than 215 thousand viewers, there were many netizens who admitted that using low heat when frying can actually make food oily. TikTok user @dr.grandika then responded to this statement.
"Sorry, usually it's grilled over low heat, but the fried food absorbs a lot of oil
"Thank God, I've understood it here, thanks for the knowledge, it's useful," said TikTok @Sibad.
"No, why don't you just let the flame heat up first then plunge it in," replied the TikTok account @dr.grandika.
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Apart from that, the TikTok user also explained how many times cooking oil can be reused. The reason is, cooking oil that is used continuously has the potential to become unhealthy.
"Doctor, how many times can palm cooking oil be used?" asked the TikTok account @user244057662656.
"A maximum of 2x is good, provided that you don't use high heat (the color doesn't change)," said Doctor Grandika.
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