HEALTH CARE

FOOD COOKING

Most of the food we eat are well cooked. Cooking makes the food tasty, easily digestible and germs free. Fruits, nuts, carrot, faddish and tomato can be eaten raw.

COOKING OF FOOD:- We cook food in different ways. Boiling, steaming, frying, baking and roasting are different methods of cooking.

Rice, vegetables, red grams, green gram, beans and peas are cooked in boiling water. Bread and biscuits are prepared baking. Chapatis and papads are roasted on charcoal fire. Steaming is the method used for preparing many items like idlies.

Many kinds of sweets and savouries are prepared by the method of frying in ghee of vegetables oils.

RULES TO BE OBSERVED IN COOKING:-

Some vegetables like cauliflower, cabbage, tomatoes, carrots and leafy vegetables should not be overcooked. Overcooking destroys the vitamins contained in them.

Vitamins are lost by our various methods of cooking.

Method of cooking loss of vitamins
1. Cooking in water Vitamin C and B

2. Cooking in steam Vitamin C and B

3. Cooking in pressure cooker Vitamin A,B and C

4 .Dry Roasting Proteins and Vitamin B

5. Baking Proteins and Vitamin B

6. Puffing Vitamin B

Cooking at high temperature and over a long period of time destroys the vitamins.

EATING FRUITS AND RAW VEGETABLES :-

a). Ripe fruits and raw vegetables are good for health. They should be eaten
daily.

b). It is not safe to eat all fruits and vegetables. Over ripe and rotten fruits
should not be eaten.

c). Cut fruits from hawkers should not be eaten. Such cut fruits are exposed
to flies. They deposit harmful germs on them. Roadside dust collects on
them.

d). Before eating fruits and vegetables they should be thoroughly washed with clean water.

SPOILAGE OF FOOD :-

Food is wasted due to spoilage y various agents.

a). Moulds, yeasts and bacteria are microorganisms. If food is left uncovered
they grow over it.

b). Moulds develop a white cotton-like appearance on food.

c). Bread moulds spoils bread.

d). Yeast spoils grapes and apples.

e). Bacteria spoils milk, eggs, meat and vegetables.

2 .Certain bugs, worms and flies grow in the foodstuff and spoil the food.

3. Certain conditions are favorable for spoilage of food.

f). If there is moisture in the food items, the microorganisms will grow.

g). If the temperature is high, the food items will start decaying.

h). Food gets putrefied quickly in summer than in winter.

i). If food substances are exposed to air, the microorganisms will grow.

4). If we fail to preserve and store the food properly, it will be spoilage
sometimes it will be eaten by rats and mice.