Nutrient Loss and Enhancement by cooking

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Canarats

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Not as bad as we thought. A few are depleted (some r plentiful in average diet anyway), but possibly more are gained. While surfing for kidney diets, I saw these ultra-nifty charts referenced quite a bit, and know they will answer a lot of questions.

http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-2f.shtml
[first 4 pages have the charts; hit "GO TO NEXT PART OF ARTICLE" in blue text at bottom]

Nutrients enhanced by cooking: http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/phytonutrients-faq

Boring, I know. But some even better answers emerge out of this scientist - student flaming session:p
https://www.researchgate.net/post/F..._is_the_way_to_preserve_the_nutrition_of_food

Nuking was foretold to be an effective nutrient preserver, but seems not to stand up in trials bla bla

Slow cooking http://www.foodandnutrition.org/Stone-Soup/January-2014/Turn-up-the-Slow-Cooking-Heat-for-Health/

http://crockpotking.com/problem-with-cooking-vegetables-in-a-crock-pot/
My take, not even mentioned in any article, is that some nutrients are fat soluble, and others water soluble. Therefore the cooking liquid is important, as vitamins will be leached into it accordingly (for example, pasta contains fat soluble vitamins, therefore adding oil to the cooking water is not the greatest idea!)
 
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I did a quick google search and it appears for every site that says slow cooking is good, there are equally as many sites that say it's not. And I really couldn't find a site with scientific sources. But my search was fast. I don't tend to accept "articles' on the internet as fact.
I did find this one and it's too bad they don't mention the slow cooking method but the fact that slow cooking is lower heat which is good, it's still a prolong timed cooking.
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-cooking-method/
 
I don't trust slow-cooking either Jo Rats, or anything the media offers us. There just haven't been enough studies (like the microwave debate, abandoned since 1989). When checking my sources, I do sympathize more with the colleges because they compete for knowledge rather than money. On the Researchgate battle I linked to, there were a lot of decent studies, cited in the comments section by students fighting it out, that I was never aware of.
 
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