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Kitchen health risk: how harmful is your cooking?

A chicken breast served as a "test object" for the researchers.(Bild: GCapture – stock.adobe.com)

Frying, simmering or boiling? When we talk about healthy food preparation, we are usually talking about how food can best be prepared for our bodies according to nutritional science; less often, however, we talk about which preparation method releases the most harmful substances and is therefore potentially hazardous to health. The differences are considerable.

Whether it's hot tea or cocoa, a spicy soup or a hearty stew: when the days get cold and gray, we long all the more for a warm and often comforting meal. However, we tend to ignore the fact that cooking is one of the main causes of indoor air pollution - which can pose a serious health risk, especially now that we are spending more time indoors.