Thermal Properties of Cooking Methods

Food itself has inherent energetic properties that cool or warm your baby’s body. In addition to the intuitive idea that frozen foods are cooling, and hot cooked foods are warming, different cooking methods can also have cooling or warming effects. The same food will have different thermal properties when prepared in different ways. Ice cream cools your baby’s body, while drinking warm milk warms her. Listed below are ways that cooking methods can influence your baby’s body.

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