Baked chicken wings, baked French fries, baked sweet potatoes, baked dried fruits... In recent years, air fryers have become popular. Is this thing really easy to use and healthy?

It is undeniable that making food in an air fryer is more convenient, and the food produced in the air fryer contains less calories than the food obtained by traditional frying. Relying on its "high-speed circulating air" technology, when using the air fryer to cook non-fat foods such as vegetables, it only needs to brush a thin layer of oil on its surface (to ensure that the cooking process does not stick to the pan), and also It can give vegetables a smooth and shiny appearance, and even without oil when cooking meat and other fatty foods.

Although from the perspective of reducing calories, the food made by the air fryer is lower in calories, but it also has another disadvantage of fried food - the loss of nutritional value. The air fryer simulates the effect of hot oil, quickly heating and crisping food. Although the nutrients contained in the food avoid a series of changes in the oil during the frying process and the subsequent substances that are not conducive to physical health, it will also produce certain changes at high temperatures, reducing its nutritional value.

Therefore, if you buy an air fryer at home, when using it, you should try to control the temperature, reduce the heating time, keep the nutrients in the food as much as possible, and minimize the disadvantages caused by high temperature on the premise of ensuring the maturity and hygiene of the food. influences.