Monday, February 20, 2012

Is food cooked in Microwave Oven harmful for health

Is food cooked in Microwave Oven harmful for health?

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1 :
Some say - Yes (see: http://www.mercola.com/article/microwave/hazards.htm) Some say - No (see: http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/health/foodsafety/az1081.html) However, my personal opinion is - there's no beating the food cooked off the micro. I am not too much of a techie, but i have noticed that food cooked on the traditional burners (blue flame) tastes better and has proven to be healthy. I suppose you can use the micro for stuff like minor re-heating or when you really HAVE to, but until proven otherwise i would recommend the good old gas burner.
2 :
No you will not get sick by the radiation but it is possible to get sick since microwave cooking is not even cooking, it might be hot on the outside but still raw in the middle, best way is to temp the food that you cook and follow directions and recipes so your food comes out done.
3 :
(m) Some people claim that there exist more subtle dangers than the ones listed above associated with cooking in a microwave oven and these may include: that microwave cooking causes more loss of nutrients than conventional cooking, and that microwave radiation leads to chemical reactions in the food that are different from those occurring during conventional heating and which can cause cancer or other ill effects if consumed, particularly due to the formation of a group of suspected carcinogens called d-nitrosodiethanolamines.
4 :
Not as far as anyone's been able to prove. However, there was a study a couple of years ago which said that food cooked with micro-waves lost almost ALL it's nutrients - which is the total opposite of what they said previously...

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