1, pressure cooker cooking is conducive to the protection of vitamins.

Research has found that the pressure cooker cooking grains such as beans, although the temperature from 100 ℃ to 110 ℃, increased the loss of high temperature, but the cooking time from 60 minutes to 30 minutes, and reduce the loss. Both offset, and does not increase the loss of B vitamins.

2, pressure cooker cooking is conducive to the protection of antioxidant components.

Pressure cooker cooking can avoid food exposure to too much oxygen, for the preservation of valuable antioxidant components of coarse grains, such as polyphenols is very favorable. Overseas studies have found that steaming reduces the antioxidant capacity of beans, such as a 44% loss of oxygen radical absorption capacity (i.e., the ability to resist oxidation) in green peas after 90 minutes of cooking at room temperature.

However, cooking beans in a pressure cooker reduces the loss of antioxidant properties for the same level of softness. For example, after pressure-cooking green peas for 15 minutes, the oxygen radical uptake capacity not only did not decrease, but increased, to 224 percent of its original capacity.

3, pressure cooker cooking favorable digestion.

Chinese Agricultural University Nutrition Research Office found that the pressure cooker cooking yam, gravy, lotus seed, barley and red beans and other hard health ingredients, high-pressure 20 minutes, the digestion of these ingredients significantly faster.

So, for people with indigestion and the elderly, children and other people with weak stomach, cooking with a pressure cooker can help digestion, reduce the burden on the stomach. So, no matter cooking porridge or soup, pressure cooker is a good choice for health.

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Cooking with a pressure cooker Note:

One of the taboos: improper selection

We should choose the right size, functionality, quality and stability of the family's actual needs, good security, the price is right electric pressure cooker. Do not blindly buy, blindly believe that the brand, or sales staff marketing, you can refer to the above selection guide for selection.

The second taboo: do not learn to use

Some people buy an electric pressure cooker, do not ask and do not learn, pick up and use, this is the most dangerous! The first time you use an electric pressure cooker, you must read the pressure cooker instruction manual. Be sure to do it according to the instructions, or ask someone who knows how to do it. Never use it without learning.

Three taboos: do not check before use

When using, first of all, carefully check whether the exhaust hole is smooth, the hole under the seat of the safety valve is not blocked by residual rice or other food debris. If the use of the process is blocked by food, the power should be unplugged, forced cooling, clean air holes to continue to use, otherwise the use of food will spray out scalding.

Also check whether the rubber sealing washer is aging. Rubber sealing ring after using a period of time to aging. The aging rubber ring is easy to make the pressure cooker leak, for this reason, it needs to be renewed in time.

People's Daily News - Pressure Cooker Cooking Note: There are 3 advantages and 1 disadvantage of cooking with a pressure cooker