Office workers must know what to bring

The food in the company's cafeteria is hard to swallow, and it's not enough to go out for lunch to eat. The way to save time and satisfy appetite is undoubtedly to bring lunch. Many young people now choose this method to solve stomach problems. What kind of dishes are not easy to degenerate, more suitable for microwave heating? What kind of dishes should not be selected from the box lunch? What's so special about microwave heating? It will be announced for you now.

Staple food

Recommended: rice

For rice, rice is the best staple food, and staple foods for bread and cakes should not be included in lunch. From the perspective of microwave oven heating, the heated rice can basically maintain its original state. Steamed buns and flat cakes are extremely easy to dry and should not be heated by a microwave oven.

Meat and seafood

Recommended: beef and mutton, chicken

Try to choose beef, mutton, and chicken with low levels of unsaturated fatty acids. Pork has relatively more unsaturated fatty acids and should not be included in the lunch box category. Fish and seafood are not recommended because it is difficult for fish and seafood heated in microwave ovens to maintain their original color and aroma. From an appearance point of view, it will also affect appetite.

Vegetarian

Recommended: eggplant vegetables

It is not appropriate to bring green leafy vegetables. Green leafy vegetables contain different amounts of nitrates. Heating or storage in microwave ovens takes too long. Vegetables will turn yellow and turn off. Nitrates will also be reduced by bacteria to toxic nitrites, causing cancer. . Should not bring cold dishes, the key is that cold dishes should not be eaten overnight. Cold dishes are contaminated as they are processed. Even if they are refrigerated, they are likely to have deteriorated overnight. Therefore, it is not advisable to put overnight cold dishes in the lunch boxes. In addition, relative to green vegetables, solanaceous vegetables are not easy to degenerate, and it is not easy to change the color and aroma of the dishes after heating in a microwave oven.

Other considerations

1. Cooking methods: Cooking methods suitable for microwave heating are steamed, braised, stewed, etc. These dishes cooked in microwave ovens are not easy to taste and discolor after being cooked, and dishes fried and stir-fried are obviously not suitable for eating after being heated in a microwave oven. . What needs to be reminded is that the vegetables to be brought in are cooked until they are cooked on six or seven minutes in order to prevent the microwave from further destroying its nutrients when heated. Such classic dishes as scrambled eggs and roasted eggplant are more suitable for “bringing rice”.

2, dishes: suitable "with rice": tomato scrambled eggs, roasted eggplant, cabbage, soy, cabbage, bacon, bacon, salted fish and smoked duck, tender cowpea, radish, sweet potato and other classic dishes are more suitable. It is not appropriate to bring high fat foods. Double-cooked pork, sweet and sour pork ribs, patties, fried rice, etc. are best not to bring, because they contain too much fat, relatively low fat foods, these things are more likely to deteriorate is not easy to keep fresh.

3. Lunch Box: Be sure to choose a lunch box suitable for heating in a microwave oven. Such a lunch box will be marked with the words “Microwave oven applies”.

4, heating method: When heating, in order to prevent excessive evaporation of water, it should be covered with lid heating. In general, microwave oven heating time is controlled in about two minutes. If the food is not hot enough, you can turn it in the microwave oven and make two turns.