Fill me in on why I should boil my vegetables
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I keep seeing recipes instructing to boil vegetables for 1,2,3 hours.
Why?
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@enjoyeroflife said in Fill me in on why I should boil my vegetables:
I keep seeing recipes instructing to boil vegetables for 1,2,3 hours.
Why?
It breaks down the fibers, starches, and other nutrients that could be either hard for the body to fully digest, pro-bacterial, or does any other harm to the body.
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In case of mushrooms it breaks down and boils away harmful chemical that would otherwise be in a raw mushroom and the same goes for potatoes. If you follow the Japanese(?) guy on twitter who wrote the book about fish oil, he posted a graph showing histamine load across different types of food preparation and boiling reduced the histamine load the most, whether it was meat or vegetable.
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@john can the boiling water be used or does it contain to much of said toxic substances. Seems like a waste of minerals and other possibly desired watersoluble things?