Why is food cooked? What is the difference in the physical states of uncooked and cooked food?

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  • Food is cooked in order to make it easy to digest.
  • Also, the raw or uncooked food may contain harmful microorganisms which may cause illness. Cooking of food at high temperature kills most of these microorganisms.
  • Raw/uncooked food materials like dried pulses, vegetables, meat, etc. are hard and thus, not easily chewable while cooked food is soft and tender, therefore, easily chewable. 

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