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10973285 No.10973285 [Reply] [Original]

Whats the point of cooking food when it kills most of the beneficial nutrients? Why dont we just eat everything that is not meat raw? Is cooking the biggest scam ever?

>> No.10973298

>>10973285
[User was banned for being this retarded]

>> No.10973303
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>>10973285
>Is cooking the biggest scam ever?

>He is cooking is food.

Good goy, please continue to use the oven and waste electricity/gas.

>> No.10973307

>>10973285
Enjoy your parasites anon

>> No.10973341

>>10973285
It makes things more palatable. Just dont boil or steam if youre worried.

>> No.10973344

>>10973298
t. mad cookcuck

>> No.10973351

>>10973341
boiling or steaming literally preserves the biggest amount of nutrition compared to other cooking methods, brainlet

>> No.10973352

>>10973285
>when it kills most of the beneficial nutrients?
Because that's not true. The cooking process causes negligible nutrition loss. And in many cases it actually improves nutrient availability.

>> No.10973357

>>10973352
>And in many cases it actually improves nutrient availability.
t. Big Cookeries shill

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10973370

>>10973357
Stop shitposting and educate yourself.

>> No.10973374

>>10973370
give me 5(five) examples in which food gets more nutrient-rich through cooking

>> No.10973393

>>10973374
Starches.

>> No.10973396

>>10973393
>5

>> No.10973410

>>10973374
I just gave you several dozen.
Cruciforous veggies are a great example of a class of foods whose vitamins are useless until the veggie is cooked. That includes cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, and more. The calcium in raw spinach is worthless to the human body because it's bound by the oxalic acid. Cooking it renders it available to the body. And it's not just calcium, that applies to Vitamins A and E, zinc, thiamine, and iron as well.

>> No.10973426

>>10973285
Sure thing, go ahead and eat your potatoes raw.

>> No.10973443

>>10973285
pls continue eating your food raw. You will soon become no different from monkeys that do that too

>> No.10973444

Cooked food requires less energy for the body to process compared to uncooked food. That extra energy can be used for more important functions, such as brain development. Cooking also increases the bioavailabilty of many nutrients, though it does destroy some others in the process. The way I see it, you should eat a good mixture of raw and cooked vegetables in order to maximize nutrient intake.

>> No.10973465

>>10973444
Frankly, this BS about cooking destroying nutrients needs to stop being parroted. It is actually a very insignificant thing.

This is a database of foods which had their nutritional content measured pre/post cooking. The figures given show what % of the nutrients remain after cooking. As you can see for most foods and most nutrients that figure is 100%, or is very close to it.
https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400525/Data/retn/retn06.pdf

>> No.10973500

>>10973285
>Why dont we just eat everything that is not meat raw?
Meat is better for you raw as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weRKlBGszhY

>> No.10973537

>>10973444
>That extra energy can be used for more important functions, such as brain development.
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>>10973285
potatoes, beans, and many other vegetables are literally toxic if not cooked thoroughly...
...you dumb fuck.

>> No.10973546

>>10973285
try steaming vegetables for 5 minutes or less, or boiling them for under a minute, so they're still crisp/crunchy to eat. 100x better (exceptions: onions, spring onions, bok choi)

>> No.10973552

Actually, in the case of meat, I believe cooking it lets our bodies absorb the nutrients better. We basically evolved to where we are with cooking.

As far as other things go like veggies, it's just so it tastes better. You can cook a lot of things in ways that don't lose nutrition (like steaming) and in other cases, if cooking it lets you eat MORE of it (like spinach) it's probably an alright idea