Vegetable Broth

[eve1974]

Supposedly very good for us.

Surely all the vitamins and minerals are destroyed in the boiling process?

[ummmm]

I assume they seep into the water. I mainly steam veg (on the hob) and the water changes colour depending on what I'm steaming.

[barry1010]

Vegetables lose nutrients when cooked in soup. Water brought to a boil transfers heat quickly to vegetables, which causes some of the nutrients inside them to seep out into the cooking water. However, the nutrients resistant to heat will stay in the soup — and you will eat them along with the water.

Heat degrades some of the vitamins contained in vegetables, such as vitamin C, folate, and pantothenic acid, and strengthens others, like lycopene in tomatoes.

https://homecookworld.com/vegetable-nutrients-in-soup/

[barry1010]

Far healthier to drink the cabbage water than eat the cabbage it was cooked in

[Vagus]

But the cabbage contains lots of fibre which the water doesn’t, and we need fibre.

[barry1010]

That's true, Vagus. I eat a lot of cabbage and drink the water if it has been boiled. Lovely with a bit of black pepper

[Atheist]

I think it's better to cook and enjoy food for pleasure, rather than obsess about what's good for you.

[eve1974]

That is true atheist …. However I have put on weight (I blame menopause not lockdown) and having gone up 2 dress sizes in a year I need to nip this in the bud now.

Prev I cld eat n drink n remain whippet like. Not anymore!!!

[eve1974]

Btw my broth question was cos I’m trying to drink broth more often than a full breakfast and lunch …. Calories