Deep Frying Your Vegetables Makes Them More Nutritious

A study out of the University of Granada in Spain says that deep frying your vegetables using extra virgin olive oil actually makes them more nutritious!

The process adds phenolic compounds which have antioxidant properties. Boiling, grilling or any other process of cooking vegetables has no known benefits like this.

The antioxidants are transferred from the extra virgin olive oil to the vegetables in the frying process. To determine this, the research team cooked vegetables multiple ways: deep frying, sautéing, boiling in water, and boiling in a water and oil combination.

While sautéing and deep frying increased the fat content, the phenolic compounds levels also increased. The boiled vegetables had loss phenolic compounds in their cooking process as compared to their raw counterparts.

The study does still recommend boiling vegetables if the vegetables are going to be consumed with the cooking medium as well. But, as long as you're not drinking the extra virgin olive oil, deep frying is surprisingly a nutritious option!

(via Popular Science)