Quick Veggie Question

I thought I was being good eating lots of veggies with my dinner. I usually boil them, not too much, still a bit crunchy, but boiled non the less.

Then a friend of mine told me that I might as well drop the veggies all together because boiling them removes all the nutrients.

I agree with this if you boil the veggies until they become limp and colourless, but normal boiled vegetables with a bit of a crunch must still be a healthy option? I know steamed or fried or raw is better, but boiled must still give enough goodness so its better then dropping them all together? Right?

When you boil vegetables, some of the nutrients are denatured by heat, and some are leached into the cooking water.

If you like cooked vegetables (and most of us do!!), and want to preserve as many of the vitamins and minerals as possible, try steaming them or even roasting them instead, that way nothing is lost in the cooking water.

However, not all the nutrients are lost by boiling, and if you eat lots of them with your meal, you are still getting vitamins, minerals, fibre and lot of other goodies that you would not otherwise be getting - so don't stop eating them!

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Very little of the nutrents are lost in the cooking proccess, and the amount of lose is affected by how long ,and hot you cook them. CC has the listing for food both raw and cooked.

Thanks guys

Buy a steamer or double boiler of some kind and go to steaming instead of boiling to preserve the nutrients. Some vegetables are more affected than others by boiling, and as others have said, it depends on how long you boil them as well.    Another thing you can do is, if you make your own soups, save the liquid left over from boiling or steaming and use it as your soup base.   Works great for me.