You probably know that what you eat is important for your health. And you might have given some thought to how you cook it, too.
But even before cooking, your approach to preparing food – such as by chopping, blending or grinding – "impacts the nutrition value," said Dr. Luis Rustveld, a registered dietitian and an associate professor of family and community medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
That prep work can affect how the body digests food and what nutrients it absorbs, he said. Here are some examples.
Juicing and blending
Juicing and blending may seem similar, but they aren't the same. Juicing extracts liquid from a food; blending takes the entire fruit or vegetable and cuts it into tiny bits.
