The dangers of bringing lunch to office workers

Due to the high pressure of modern life, many office workers choose to bring lunch to the office after preparing it in the morning in order to reduce the time spent on commuting and the money wasted on lunch. Bringing lunch to the office can indeed effectively reduce the degree of time wasted by office workers, but this can easily cause the loss of nutrients in the food. The following article will explain in detail the dangers of bringing lunch to office workers.

Nutrition experts believe that bringing lunch with you will result in a serious loss of nutrients, so it is not recommended to bring lunch with you on a long-term basis. If you want to bring food, it is best to prepare it in the morning. The food should not be stored for more than 12 hours, preferably within 8 hours. If the food is prepared the night before, you can seal and refrigerate the food you want to take with you. Put the food in the refrigerator when you arrive at work the next day. Be sure to heat the food thoroughly before eating. In addition, food can easily spoil in hot weather, so if your workplace does not have a refrigerator, it is best not to bring food.

If there are many people in a unit who bring their own lunch, it is a good idea to have a small gathering for lunch. While showing off your own or your loved ones’ skills, you can also enhance communication. The variety of dishes available for group dining has also increased, and the nutrition is more comprehensive. However, experts remind that there are many things to pay attention to when dining with a group. Only by matching food properly and paying attention to hygiene can you truly eat healthily.

Four things to note when bringing lunch to work:

1. Cooking method:

Cooking methods suitable for microwave heating include steaming, braising, stewing, etc. Dishes cooked by these methods are not easy to change taste or color after heating in a microwave oven, while dishes cooked by frying or stir-frying are obviously not suitable for consumption after heating in a microwave oven. We need to remind everyone that the vegetables should be fried until they are 60% to 70% cooked to prevent their nutrients from being further destroyed by microwave heating. Classic dishes such as scrambled eggs with tomatoes and roasted eggplant are more suitable for those who bring their own lunch.

2. Dishes:

Suitable dishes for "taking rice" include scrambled eggs with tomatoes, roasted eggplant, cabbage, soybeans, Chinese cabbage, pickled meat, bacon, salted fish and smoked duck, young kidney beans, radish, sweet potato and other classic dishes. It is not advisable to bring foods high in fat. It is best not to bring twice-cooked pork, sweet and sour spare ribs, meat pie, fried rice, etc., because they contain too much fat. Compared with low-fat foods, these things are more likely to spoil and are not easy to keep fresh.

3. Lunch box:

Be sure to choose a lunch box that is suitable for microwave heating. Such a lunch box will be marked with the words "microwave safe".

4. Heating method:

When heating, the lid should be placed on to prevent excessive evaporation of moisture. Generally speaking, the time it takes to heat a lunch box in a microwave is about two minutes. If the food is not heated through, just turn it a few more times in the microwave.