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10 Surprising Ways You Are Making Your Vegetables Less Nutritious
Modern varieties of vegetables, the ones you see for sale in the produce section of the supermarket, are generally sweeter, starchier, and less fibrous than their wild ancestors. They are also far less nutritious: wild dandelion leaves, for example, have eight times more antioxidants than spinach and forty times more than iceberg lettuce. It turns out that many common cooking habits are actually making vegetables less nutritious.
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This is interesting and all, but I'm not gonna start cooking my potatoes twenty-four hours in advance. I'm pretty sure eating plenty of fresh vegetables is much more important to my health than knowing to cook my carrots before I cut them or not letting my garlic sit after I chop it up.
Great list though I think some of these options are a bit impractical as Triseult pointed out. But others are easily assimilated in your daily cooking.
Thank you for sharing.
A colleague told me that she has started to try to eat some of the skins of fruits and vegetables that in the past she would just peel and throw away. A nutritionist explained to her that many times the skins contain lots of good things. Which reminds me that my brother told me he started to eat unpeeled cooked potatoes.
I never understood why people don't eat the skin on potatoes. I just wash the dirt off, and I might use a knife to cut off the area around the eyes, but I generally don't peel vegetables. I do eat lots of raw carrots though.
my mum use to peel the tatties then fry the skins nom.
But me, I would just eat baked potato skins any day. I've even been known to eat everyone elses baked potato skins too (heathens, they're sooo tasty)
I rarely peel mine either.
Who the fuck boils spinach? they need to be taken out back and shot
:'(
it's a really creamy leaf, it's such a crime to boil it to death. It's AWESOME in salads
Truth.