For families with rice, rice is the best staple food, and steamed bread, pies and other staple foods should not be brought into the box lunch. From the point of view of microwave heating, the heated rice can basically keep its original state, but steamed bread and pie are easy to dry and are not suitable for microwave heating. Try to choose beef, mutton and chicken with less unsaturated fatty acids. Pork is relatively rich in unsaturated fatty acids, so it is not suitable to be included in the box lunch category.
In addition, the nutritionist reminds you that you must pay attention to cooking methods. Cooking methods suitable for microwave heating include steaming, stewing and stewing. The dishes made by these methods are not easy to change flavor and color after microwave heating, while fried and stir-fried dishes are not suitable for microwave heating. In addition, compared with green vegetables, eggplant vegetables are not easy to deteriorate, and it is not easy to change the color and fragrance of dishes after microwave heating. Need to be reminded that,
When cooking, just stir-fry vegetables until they are half cooked, so as to avoid further damage to their nutrients when microwave heating. Classic dishes, such as scrambled eggs with tomatoes and roasted eggplant, are more suitable for "people with rice". Say no to these dishes
Since you bring rice, it is natural to consider whether the food is not easy to deteriorate and whether the color and fragrance have changed after heating in the microwave oven.
The following dishes obviously can't meet the two conditions of "bringing rice". Don't bring fish and seafood. On the one hand, fish and seafood easily produce protein degradation products overnight, which is harmful to health. On the other hand, it is difficult for fish and seafood heated by microwave oven to maintain their original color and flavor, which will also affect their appetite from the appearance. It is not advisable to bring green leafy vegetables. Green leafy vegetables contain different amounts of nitrate. If heated or stored in the microwave oven for too long, vegetables will turn yellow and taste bad, and nitrate will be reduced to toxic nitrite by bacteria, which will cause cancer.
It is not appropriate to bring cold salad. The key is not to eat cold salad overnight. Cold salad is polluted when it is processed. Even if it is refrigerated, it is likely to have deteriorated overnight, so it is not appropriate to put the cold salad overnight into the lunch box. In particular, it is not suitable to bring food with high oil content.
Be sure to choose a lunch box suitable for microwave heating. When heating, in order to prevent excessive evaporation of water, cover and heat. Under normal circumstances, the time to heat the box lunch in the microwave oven is controlled at about two minutes. If the food is not hot enough, put it in the microwave oven and turn it a little.