"Vegetables are better cooked than left raw," thus saith the Chinese?
Many people love salads. For the sake of good health, it is important to make sure that your salad is nutritionally balanced. Sylvia LAM, a practicing dietitian, shares with us some mouth-watering and healthy salad ideas.
Sylvia says, "Fruits and green salads, for their relatively low energy content, are a bulwark against weight gain, and always considered part of a healthy weight-loss diet."

"Vegetables are better cooked than left raw," thus saith the Chinese? Sylvia says, "Some vegetables such as Chinese kale and flowing Chinese cabbage (aka choy sum) are preferably cooked, to be rid of their bitterness, rather than eaten raw. As for how to cook them, blanching or stir-frying in just a little oil is recommended. On the contrary, it is recommended that tomatoes should be cooked in a little oil so that their fat-soluble lycopene will become more readily absorbed by the body."

"Vegetables are better cooked than left raw," thus saith the Chinese?

Extract from CookSmart, Issue 17