In the article “Ask Well: Does Boiling or Baking Vegetables Destroy Their Vitamins?”, Tara Parker-Pope answers the question about whether people should cook vegetables. People from western countries prefer eating raw vegetables because they think the nutrition will not be destroyed. On the contrary, Asian people, especially Chinese people like cooking the vegetables. The author says some nutrition may keep well, however, other nutrition may be destroyed when people boil or bake vegetables. Also, some nutrition such as lycopene is lower in uncooked tomatoes than in cooked tomatoes. Most interesting, microwaved vegetables are not so bad sometimes. A March 2007 study showed that microwaved broccoli had more percent of vitamin C than steamed and boiled broccoli. In fact, let us just enjoy the vegetables in different way. You do not need to worry about the method of cooking the vegetables.
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