As much as we love junk food, making nutritional meals at home is part of a healthy lifestyle necessary for our wellbeing.
And Satia nutrition expert Benjamin Bowers has shared a few tips on how to maximise the nutritional value of your meals.
While incorporating veggies is a great way of upping the vitamins, minerals and fibre in your diet, you may lose some of that nutritional value during preparation, he says. To avoid that, always wash the vegetables before you start chopping them "to ensure that the dirt goes down the drain, not the nutrients".