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Question by CYNTHIA T: Is the leftover water from cooking veggies nutritious?
They say that all the vitamins and minerals leach into the cooking liquid. Are those vitamins still bioavaible? Or are they changed in a way that we cannot absorb them?
I was talking to a person that swore by drinking the leftover water from her veggies. I know it can’t be BAD for someone to do it but I wonder how helpful it actually is.
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Answer by ManUtd
yes it is nutritious, since many essential vitamins and minerals from the vegetables leach into it…
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Some vitamins do leach into cooking water. Cooking with little or no water (for instance, steaming or braising) reduces vitamin loss in vegetables such as broccoli from 97% to 11%.
Note, however, that the vitamins aren’t lost or destroyed, but merely transferred to the cooking water. Using that water for soup stock, or drinking it, insures that you ingest all the nutrients, and in a highly absorbable form.
Transferring nutrients into water, such as by making nourishing herbal infusions and healing soups, and then ingesting them is far more effective than wheat grass juice, green drinks, or any kind of nutritional supplement. It is, in fact, one of the best ways to optimally nourish oneself.