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प्रश्न
Explain the following:
Cooking makes food easy to digest.
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उत्तर
- During the cooking process, high polymers of carbohydrates or proteins are hydrolyzed 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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