Can vegetables become healthier by deep frying?

Study: Healthy vegetables from the deep fryer?

Sounds too good to be true: Spanish scientists at the University of Granada have now found in a study that frying vegetables is not necessarily bad. On the contrary: Who uses refined olive oil for the fryer gets in the end healthier vegetables on the plate, as if it had been cooked.

The experts prepared four types of vegetables in different ways: potatoes, tomatoes, aubergines and squash were cooked, stewed or fried. Although the vegetables contained more fat after steaming and frying, but also had the phenols increased? Plant substances that have a positive effect on health.