Cooking makes food easy to digest. - Vidyadip

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Cooking makes food easy to digest.

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During the cooking process, high polymers of carbohydrates or proteins are hydrolysed to smaller polymeric units.
The uncooked food mixture is a heterogeneous suspension which becomes a colloidal matter on cooking.
As a result, the constituent nutrient molecules present in cooked food are smaller in size and hence, easier to digest, than the uncooked food.

Hence, cooking makes food easy to digest.

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