Vegetables, for instance, cook through while retaining their texture, color, taste and vitamins.

The carbohydrates give the tubers a tendency to become soft and mushy if boiled, but they retain their texture better when steamed.

Can you provide any recipes for cooking melons that retain their flavor and, hopefully, their texture?

They can be boiled and even after cooking, they retain their crunchy texture.

However, if it happens to set for more than a few hours, then you will need to apply water very liberally as needed to retain its soft texture.

How nice that the pesto isn't ground into paste, but retains its texture.

In order for the hide to retain its pliable velvety texture even after washing, it had to go through another process.

This allows the vegetables to retain their texture.

It retains its firm but unctuously buttery texture.

The well-preserved integument has retained its texture, and researchers have mapped it in three dimensions.