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Cooking vegetables makes nutrients more available for the body to absorb, but overcooking can mean losing nutrients. Plant cell walls are broken down in cooking, which means the food can be more completely digested and used by the body. While potato should be well cooked, overcooking less starchy vegetables will result in loss of nutrients, so steaming or microwaving vegetables (so they are still crunchy) helps retain most nutrition.

Meat should always be well cooked to destroy bacteria and make nutrients available for the body to absorb

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Sream them, don't over cook them, undercook them or eat them raw.

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