How you cook is as important as what you cook when it comes to keeping your food healthy.

Here are 10 tips on how to keep your cooking healthy:

• Steam, bake, grill and boil instead of frying, deep frying or roasting.
• If frying, use non-stick cookware and don’t add any oil or fat.
• Use only very small amounts of healthier fats such as olive oil or rapeseed oil instead of butter or coconut oil.
• Trim all the fat from meat before cooking. Remove the skin from poultry.
• Don’t add salt. Use herbs and spices for flavour.
• To reduce nutrient losses, steam or microwave vegetables. If boiling use a small amount of water and don’t over boil. Cooked vegetables should still be firm.
• Cut vegetables into large chunks instead of smaller pieces before cooking. This helps reduce nutrient loss.
• Scrub instead of peeling potatoes. The skin contains lots of nutrients.
• Use low-fat milk instead of cream when making sauces.
• Use low-fat yoghurt instead of sour cream or mayonnaise in dips and dressings.