Raw Veggies Vs Cooked Veggies

[Chad B]

RAW (LIVE) vegetables contain live enzymes which are extremely beneficial to your health. Cooked (DEAD) vegetables have little to none.

LIVE veggies have all the nutrients that help us bb grow; cooking veggies depletes around half of the nutrients.

Eating RAW veggies is very important if you want to grow muscles to your fullest potential.

Don’t kill your veggies all the time, EAT THEM ALIVE!!

[sol]

I was under the impression that while cooked vegies have lost their nutrients, steamed or grilled vegies retain most of those nutirents. It's been awhile since I remember reading this, so I could be wrong..

I think this sums it all up quite nicely:

http://www.chatelaine.com/health/lib...content=969543

[usualsuspect]

Chad,
It is not an across the board thing as to the benefit of eating things either raw or cooked. Vit C and many of the b-vitamins are susceptable to oxidation and are frequently lost in ANY cooking method. The carotenoids and other lipid soluble phytonutrients are virtually inaccessable unless cooked.

Eat a variety of cooked (steamed!) and uncooked items and if you do cook things in water just drink it!

[Chad B]

Chad,
It is not an across the board thing as to the benefit of eating things either raw or cooked. Vit C and many of the b-vitamins are susceptable to oxidation and are frequently lost in ANY cooking method. The carotenoids and other lipid soluble phytonutrients are virtually inaccessable unless cooked.

Eat a variety of cooked (steamed!) and uncooked items and if you do cook things in water just drink it!

Yes I do both, but the good spirit within me tells me the RAW Veggies are healthier and it’s always seems to be right. Just like when the good spirit was telling me that 40-80 grams of pure refined sugar (dextrose) was bad for me, and I didn’t listen.