Re: Raw or cooked, which is more nutritious


"TC" <tunderbar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> calypso47@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> "That's for carrots. What about fruits? I still believe fresh *fruits*
>> (like oranges, apples, peaches, and so on) always contain more nutrients
>> than cooked ones. Am I wrong?"
>>
>> Carrots are an example only, spinach for example has more available
>> nutrition if cooked because the things good for us are converted into a
>> form we can absorb. In each individual case there are trade offs. With
>> fruits the loss tends to be in the area of heat sensitive vitamins, but
>> as
>> he says, not all of them are lost there is a reduction in level. A fruit
>> has many items of nutritional value, including the energy from the
>> carbohydrates and many other things. Most fruts are cooked as part of
>> pastries, on an an individual basis more is probably eaten as fresh. But
>> then our culture tends to prompt removing skins even when they really
>> contain more of the vitamins etc. which are usefull. I go with his
>> concluding remark, eat a wide range of many fruits and vegetables, raw
>> and/or cooked or otherwise preserved and what we need nutritionally will
>> be there. This should not be confused with the goal someone might have
>> to
>> supplement with items from foods because very large amounts of them are
>> thought to have some benefit. On that basis the natural source of them
>> in
>> the food we eat is but a small fraction even with the best preservation
>> attempts with each kind of food and cooking or not is irrelevant.
>
> I would like to see someone try to eat grains and/or corn raw. It would
> be like trying to pass sandpaper thru the GI tract.

I've eaten all kinds of grains "raw"--that is after they've
been soaked and sprouted a couple of days. I suspect
this was the first way our progenitors ate grains--even
before the their invention of cooking with fire.

Sprouted seeds and sprouted nuts
Travel quite easily through your guts.

GWC


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