Prolonged cooking can destroy essential nutrients in food – Dietician

She explained that rather than keeping food on high heat for extended periods, some traditional methods involved cooking ingredients briefly, grinding them and combining them with other nutrient-rich ingredients afterwards.“Even cooking traditional foods, it becomes much more difficult for us to eat the nutrient-level foods that can help our body function,” she said.

She noted that some traditional cooking practices used by older generations were designed in ways that helped retain more of the nutritional content of food.