http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/05/21/microwave-your-broccoli-and-eat-more-fat-with-your-salsa/ Less diet, more brain Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:56:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/05/21/microwave-your-broccoli-and-eat-more-fat-with-your-salsa/#comment-808 Leisureguy Wed, 21 May 2008 18:38:12 +0000 http://smarterfitter.com/blog/2008/05/21/microwave-your-broccoli-and-eat-more-fat-with-your-salsa/#comment-808 So far as microwaving food preserving essential nutrition, I'm skeptical. It may preserve vitamin C, but vitamin C is not the great benefit from broccoli: the benefit is the bioflavinoids and phytochemicals, and microwaving destroys those. <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18024182.000-microwave-cooking-zaps-nutrients.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Note this article</b></a> in <em>New Scientist</em>. So far as microwaving food preserving essential nutrition, I’m skeptical. It may preserve vitamin C, but vitamin C is not the great benefit from broccoli: the benefit is the bioflavinoids and phytochemicals, and microwaving destroys those. Note this article in New Scientist.

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