In a soup, the nutrients are mostly in soup or veggies?!
In a soup, the nutrients are mostly in soup or veggies?
When I eat soup, I eat the veggies,meat, and the soup. But some only eat the liquid(soup). Are they getting the same amount of nutrients as I am??... In other words, the nutrients in veggies are all in the liquid??..
Answers:
Soup is not a good way to get your vegetable nutrients, since they degrade when cooked to death.
The most nutrients come from raw vegetables, then steamed.
Most of the nutrients are cooked out into the liquid.
If it is a long slow cooked soup the majority of the nutrients will be in the liquid, but if it is just heated until the veges is cooked then the veges will still have there nutrients.
I always build my soup so what takes the longest to cook goes in first and add from there. Carrots at the start, peas last.
Most of the nutrients are on the liquid. As said by Murray H., if you want to get more nutrients from veggies, add them in such an order that they will get just cooked, but not...uh...obliterated.
A good option is to use stocks (either home made or store bought, of course home made ones are healthier) and start your soup from that flavored "water".
When veggies are cooked in soup the nutrients go into the liquid. In fact, traditional medicine advocates boiling vegetables and throwing them away, keeping the liquid to drink (though it tastes not so good).