GUANGZHOU, China, July 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Nutritionists claim nutrition intake is the key influence for growth in height and physical quality besides genetic and geographic factors. Rice is the staple food in most of Asia, providing protein, vitamins, etc. Vietnam, the third largest rice exporter in the world, produces top quality rice, but studies show much of this staple food's nutritional value is lost through improper cooking techniques in Vietnam.
Experts say the amount of nutrients lost in rice when cooked is highly dependent on the cooking technique used. Using an improper cooker can therefore be the main cause of a great loss of rice nutrition.
Which kind of cooker can maintain the most nutrients under current conditions? The answer is an intelligent electric cooker.
Mr. Liao Zhiwen, Midea ASEAN Business Division technical engineer, told reporters that according to experimental data of a particular Midea cooker, compared with traditional ones, the contents of vitamin and lysine in rice cooked with a Midea cooker have increased by 55.62% and 10.92% respectively, providing people delicious, nutritive rice. For obvious advantages in holding nutrition, the popularizing rate of intelligent electric cookers has reached 100% in Japan and Korea.
What obvious advantages does an intelligent electric cooker have against common ones?
Mr. Liao Zhiwen gave an answer: "First, different heating. Common cookers emit heat only with base plates in cooking, but Midea intelligent ones adopt '3D heating' and meanwhile heat the inner pot vertically from the upper cover, side wall and heating plate, providing wide and even heat and making rice fully absorb water and uniform in taste. Second, different heating course. Common cookers heat mechanically and unchangeably, emphasizing fierce fire blindly, which will easily make rice half cooked; while the 'five-step intelligent heating curve' technology, exclusive to Midea, divides cooking into five stages of 'soft fire pre-heating', 'suction with moderate heat', 'hard fire heating', 'complete boiling' and 'stewing' to extract rice essence and hold nutrients to a maximum."
Low-end mechanical cookers are still dominant in Vietnam, with people having no awareness in staple food nutrition intake. Increasing awareness to intelligent cookers and their popularizing rate can fully improve the nutrition intake from staple food. Nutritionists of Midea rice laboratory forecast long-term use of intelligent cookers can improve nutrition intake under an unchanging amount of food eaten.
