Cooked vs. raw veggies and their nutrient profiles - great for ekkie owners especiall

[chris-md]

I’ve been exploring food prep for Parker tonight. It started with sprouts, and ran into an interesting fact: many people who sprout actually cool the sprouts afterwards. This shocked me, as I thought it would destroy most nutrients. It’s oft repeated that cooking destroys nutrients.

So I set out to research the truth, and discovered this articlehttps://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2013/10/18/ask-well-does-boiling-or-baking-vegetables-destroy-their-vitamins/?referer=. Seems the truth is somewhere in between. It destroys some but actually enhances availability of others.

For ekkie owners, it would seem that cooking your vitamin a rich foods means the vitamin a content of food will actually become MORE available. So when you make chop, not only should you vary the food but the prep methods as well. One chop serve raw carrots, your next maybe serve cooked carrots. Different nutrient profiles of each.

 

[SailBoat]

Great knowledge base and supports what my Grandmothers had stated all those many years ago! Mix it up!

Thanks for the reminder!

 

[tashawithanekkie]

Cool, thanks. I have to make a new batch tomorrow so this is especially helpful.

 

[DRB]

I’ve been exploring food prep for Parker tonight. It started with sprouts, and ran into an interesting fact: many people who sprout actually cool the sprouts afterwards. This shocked me, as I thought it would destroy most nutrients. It’s oft repeated that cooking destroys nutrients.

So I set out to research the truth, and discovered this articlehttps://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/well/2013/10/18/ask-well-does-boiling-or-baking-vegetables-destroy-their-vitamins/?referer=. Seems the truth is somewhere in between. It destroys some but actually enhances availability of others.

For ekkie owners, it would seem that cooking your vitamin a rich foods means the vitamin a content of food will actually become MORE available. So when you make chop, not only should you vary the food but the prep methods as well. One chop serve raw carrots, your next maybe serve cooked carrots. Different nutrient profiles of each.

The way veggies are cooked matters a great deal. It has been thought that boiling veggies ruins their nutritional impact but that is not true. Don't quote me on this but I believe broccoli and carrots retain more nutrients from boiling than any other manner in which to cook them.

Also microwaving many foods is a better way to cook them as well, supposedly b/c mircowave is so much quicker the thought process is the less cooking time the more nutrients that are preserved. Lots of info out there to be read and sorted through.