Frying Vegetables Makes Them Healthier?

I have never heard of anything like this silliness... Scientists are saying that eating more fried vegetables is better for you... why? Frying them supposedly makes them better for you?

Researchers at the University of Grenada in Spain just released a new study that found vegetables are more nutritious when they've been deep fried in extra virgin olive oil. Other types of oil will not give you the same benefits.

Extra virgin olive oil contains antioxidants called phenolic compounds, which can help prevent cancer and other diseases. They occur naturally in vegetables, so you're getting them no matter what you do.

Apparently olive oil is packed to the gills with that stuff. So when you deep fry vegetables in it, they absorb even more.

But deep frying them in any type of oil ups the number of calories big time. So if you're trying to lose weight, you should probably stick with steamed vegetables.

If all you care about is pumping your body full of antioxidants, get to frying, y'all.

[Via: Popular Science]