Much to many people’s surprise, various foods can be cooked solely using a microwave. And is it safe? According to a Harvard study, the answer is yes. Regardless of how they’re cooked ...

But in the past decade or so, there has been a growing discussion of whether we cook food because it makes digesting more efficient. Essentially, the argument is that cooking predigests food.

We know that white stripes on raw chicken breasts are strips of fat. And when you cook salmon, white gunk oozes out, so you’d be forgiven for thinking that was fat too. But it’s not.

They found that humans would need to eat almost nine and a half hours every day if they didn't cook their food, that gorillas use on average 8.8 hours a day eating, orangutans 7.8 and chimps 7.3.