← 1.3 Conserving Food Nutrients
Handling vegetables from garden to kitchen
Agriculture · Grade 7 · about 40 minutes
Safe handling means picking in the cool, keeping leaves uncrushed in the shade, and using them the same day.
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Other lessons in this sub-strand
- Vitamins and minerals in vegetables
- How vegetables lose nutrients
- Handling vegetables from garden to kitchen
- Washing vegetables to keep nutrients
- Peeling without wasting nutrients
- Cutting vegetables at the right time
- Cooking time that conserves nutrients
- Covering vegetables while cooking
- Adopting nutrient conservation at home