Kashif Khan argues that microwaving food destroys 5 to 40 percent of nutrients and increases glucose, insulin, and free radicals. Cooking in plastic leaches toxic chemicals like benzene. He recommends steaming or boiling instead, and using glass or ceramic containers.
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You're crazy if you're still using a microwave in 2024. Here's how you are secretly making yourself sick and how you can avoid it. There's hundreds of studies from all over the world showing that using a microwave can reduce nutrients in your food by 5 to 40%, or even more depending on how long you cook the food. Using a microwave can also increase the glucose and insulin response and increase free radicals. On top of that, if you're cooking your food in a plastic container, you can potentially release 44 toxic chemicals into your food, including benzene. It's been shown to be extremely toxic. If you're going to cook your food in the microwave, use glass, use ceramic, make sure you don't cook it for more than 30 seconds, ideally you should immediately ditch it into the trash and start using some of the healthier cooking methods such as steaming, boiling. And by the way, I made a list of cooking methods ranking them from healthiest to least healthy. Just comment the word methods below and I'll DM it to you.