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Life Sciences => Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution => Topic started by: Peter on 02/09/2008 18:27:06

Title: What's the difference between a cooked and raw lentil?
Post by: Peter on 02/09/2008 18:27:06

Peter asked the Naked Scientists:

When you take a lentil and keep it damp for a week, it sprouts and you get a crunchy bite to eat.  

My question is what's the nutritional difference between a cooked lentil and a fresh lentil shoot?


What do you think?

Title: What's the difference between a cooked and raw lentil?
Post by: biolight on 22/10/2008 19:13:39

Quote from: Peter on 02/09/2008 18:27:06

My question is what's the nutritional difference between a cooked lentil and a fresh lentil shoot?
What do you think?

cooked lentil (if we do not consider the fact of cooking) is the bean - dormant seeds, which have same elemental, but different molecular composition, than fresh lentil shoot. Particularly, there are vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B6, B12, a lot of vitamins C and E, in fresh lentil shoot. Also many others healthy nutrients, BTW which may not be stable to the higher (cooking) temperature.