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Question
How does prolonged cooking of protein rich food render it difficult to digest?
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Solution
- Prolonged cooking method reduces the digestibility of protein.
- For example, during roasting of meat, it shrinks in size and becomes leathery.
- It becomes stringy and is difficult to digest.
- This furious method of cooking reduces the content of protein in the food item.
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