Food preparation practices influence nutrition

Food, Nutrition, and Cancer

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Indigenous methods of food preparation: what is their impact on food security and nutrition?

Creating healthy food environments through global benchmarking of government nutrition policies and food industry practices

Unhealthy processed food products are increasingly dominating over healthy foods, making food and nutrition environments unhealthier. Development and implementation of strong government healthy food policies is currently being circumvented in many countries by powerful food industry lobbying. In order to increase accountability of both governments and the private sector for their actions, and i...

Factors Impacting Food Workers’ and Managers’ Safe Food Preparation Practices: A Qualitative Study

This study collected data on food workers’ self-reported food safety practices and beliefs about factors that impacted their ability to prepare food safely. Eleven focus groups were conducted with food service workers and managers in which they discussed their current implementation of seven food preparation practices (handwashing, hot holding, etc.), and the factors they believed impacted thei...

[The influence of food preparation methods on atherosclerosis prevention].

OBJECTIVE To analyze the influence of food preparation methods on the composition of fatty acids and cholesterol in foods. METHODS The chemical composition of cholesterol and fatty acids was analyzed in eight different types of meat and feijoada in relation to different methods of preparation. RESULTS Feijoada, when prepared with the beans and meats in separate pots, has less cholesterol (1...