Are all nutrients lost when you cook vegetables?
I love vegetables, salads, etc... but I cook them a lot too... I like making veggie soups, my own spaguetti sauce,I sautee a lot... is it true that all nutrients get lost when you cook them? I've heard different opinions... I know some nutrients activate with heat (like in tomatoes for example) any information on this? thanks!
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Permalink Reply by Cayce H Cronk on -
Im not sure if all of the nutrients are losts but ALOT of them are! I like cooked food too.....I just try to eat about 50% raw most days....some days less. Good ways to get raw into the daily diet is green smoothies, salads, juicing. I find it harder to eat raw in the winter when I like more warming foods. It's all based on how hot the food gets. I think there is a good balance in there somewhere!
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Permalink Reply by Claudia Meyer on -
I am sure if you boil vegetables, then all the nutrients stay on the water... but if you make some veggie soup... then that should be ok, right? cause you are taking the water in which the veggies were cooked... I usually just sautee my side dishes... my daughter will refuse to eat any raw veggies... only tomatoes! and carrots...
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Permalink Reply by Cayce H Cronk on
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Claudia,
My son only eats raw tomatoes and carrotts too! I think they like them cause they are sweet and tomatoes are a fruit anyways. I didn't know that till recently. I think some of the nutrients are cooked out of the food and some are destroyed. I have heard it's best to try to consume the water you cooked in to use as broths for other things or just to drink to recapture the nutrients but even so......alot of nutrients are destroyed by the heat.
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Permalink Reply by Marilyn on
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Claudia, consider that vitamins, enzymes and probiotics begin dying 7 mins after seperation from the mother plant. It then goes in trucks, warehouses, grocery stores and your fridge. By the time we get around to eating it, much of the nutrition is gone. Then heating ANY food above 118degrees F kills more of the natural nutrition. Even if there is some leaft, it's not much! Also consider that heats greater than 118degrees changes the food's molecular structure, altering what it was meant to do in the body.
I invision Adam coming in from work, he'd been naming all those animals 8-5 or so, and saying "Eve, I'm hungry." They go out into the Garden, locate today's meal and sit there picking and eating all they want of it. That would have been ROBUST nutrition!
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Permalink Reply by Claudia Meyer on
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118 degrees will be what?? low medium heat? what if the veggies are sauteed?
Well, I do have the priviledge of having a community farm... where everything is rased locally!
do you eat raw potatoes? how do you cook them? I can do some of them... but some are hard to eat raw!
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I'm literally sitting here having my lunch ... choloate milk green smoothie ... cacao nibs, cashew nut milk (made it in about 20 seconds), distilled water, blue agave for sweetener and I added dandellion greens for some magnesium and parsley to help with my kidney issue. 2 yrs ago, I'd have said YUCK, it's pretty dang tastey today!!!
Easter dinner is literally the only family meal I've cooked this year.
I eat a baked potato about every 10 days now. I add goat butter, feta cheese, and plain goat yogurt instead of sour cream, sea salt and crushed red pepper. Loaded baked potatoes were one of my favorite foods, like all my life! I eat an occasional baked potato.
Babysteps, keep adding more raw.
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Carrot juice must be THE most consumed raw food ... have ya seen the HUGE bags of carrots in the healthfood grocery stores?
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Permalink Reply by Sherry F. Larson on -
A lot of Nutrients are water soluble and are dissolved in water when cooked. That is why raw vegetables are the best. Steaming vegs is the way to go if you can. Soups do cook out nutrients are cooked out but stay in the broth that they are cooking in. Therefore when you eat the soups you are eating the nutrients.
If you steam vegs or cook in water save the broth for use in other foods.
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Soup cooked above 118degrees has dead cooked out nutrients. No living vitamins, no living enzymes, no living probiotics.
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Permalink Reply by John Jerdon on -
One major factor in food nutrition is if the skin is left on since it contains most of nutrition. I guess if you drink the broth then all is not lost. Cooking vegetables above 108 degrees kills the digestive enzyme found in them which has greatly contributed to the obesity problem in US. This is why Kevin Trudeau advises people to take digestive enzymes to help maintain body metabolism. Life brings life. Only fresh fruits and vegetables contain active lifeforce (Chi). Eating the carcus of a dead mammal can only produce disease. Fish is ok because it contains omega oils.
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