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The document discusses the significance of cooking in food preparation, highlighting its role in enhancing taste, safety, and digestibility while also noting potential nutrient loss. It categorizes cooking methods into moist heat, dry heat, and combination methods, explaining their effects on nutrient retention. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of proper nutrition for overall health and energy, detailing how a balanced diet supports bodily functions and daily activities.

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_Performance-Activity-NO.-1

The document discusses the significance of cooking in food preparation, highlighting its role in enhancing taste, safety, and digestibility while also noting potential nutrient loss. It categorizes cooking methods into moist heat, dry heat, and combination methods, explaining their effects on nutrient retention. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of proper nutrition for overall health and energy, detailing how a balanced diet supports bodily functions and daily activities.

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Cael, Izza M.

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Performance Activity NO. 1 – COOKING FOR HEALTH and ENERGY

Cooking is an important part of preparing food. It not only makes food taste, smell, and
look better, but also helps make it safe and easier to digest. The way we cook our food can also
affect how many nutrients stay in it. Learning about different cooking methods and how they affect
our health is important, especially when it comes to making sure we get the right nutrition and
enough energy each day. In this paper, I will explain the purpose, advantages, and disadvantages
of cooking, the different types of cooking methods, and why proper nutrition and energy are
important for good health.

Cooking helps improve the taste, smell, and texture of food. It also makes food safer to eat
by killing harmful bacteria or germs. Cooked food is usually easier to chew and digest, and some
cooking methods can even help preserve food for a longer time. But cooking also has some
downsides. For example, some nutrients—like vitamin C and certain B vitamins—can be lost,
especially during boiling. Overcooking food or cooking it at high temperatures can also reduce its
quality. In some cases, cooking methods like deep frying add extra fats and calories, which can be
unhealthy when eaten too often.

There are three main types of cooking methods: moist heat, dry heat, and combination
methods. Moist heat methods, such as boiling, steaming, simmering, and poaching, use water or
steam to cook food. Among these, steaming is considered the best for keeping nutrients in the food,
while boiling may cause some vitamins to escape into the water—especially if the water is
discarded after cooking. Dry heat methods include baking, roasting, grilling, and frying. These do
not use water and usually help preserve more nutrients than boiling. However, frying can increase
the fat and calorie content of food, and grilling—if overdone—can create harmful substances.
Combination methods like stewing and braising use both dry and moist heat. These methods are
generally good at keeping nutrients, especially if the liquid used during cooking, like broth or
sauce, is also consumed.

Nutrition is very important for staying healthy. Eating a balanced diet gives the body the
vitamins, minerals, and energy it needs to grow, stay strong, and fight off sickness. Food provides
energy that helps us move, study, and do our daily tasks. The amount of energy a person needs
depends on age, body size, and how active they are. Carbohydrates, fats, and proteins are the main
sources of energy. Getting the right nutrients every day helps our body work properly, keeps us
active, and prevents health problems in the future.

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