Can chopping your vegetables boost their nutrients?

[rangerrebew]

Can chopping your vegetables boost their nutrients?
May 25, 2017 by Duane Mellor, Ekavi Georgousopoulou And Nenad Naumovski, The Conversation
 
It can be tempting to look for shortcuts when it comes to eating your five serves of vegies a day. Credit: www.shutterstock.com

We all know eating vegetables is a good way to improve health. And for many years the focus has been on just eating more vegetables, be it fresh, frozen or tinned.

But what if there was a quicker and easier way to get more benefit from our vegetables? Can the way we prepare vegetables boost their nutrition? Does tearing or chopping your lettuce makes any difference? And if we chop, does it matter what type of knife we use?


Read more at: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-05-vegetables-boost-nutrients.html#jCp

[goodwithagun]

I just ate three radishes I picked this morning. I only ran them under water. Doing it all wrong 

[GtHawk]

Chopping, you mean like with your choppers?

[dfwgator]

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