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tarae
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Posted: 28 Sep 2006 06:06 pm |
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Does anyone know how steaming changes the caloric content of vegetables? I noticed a lot of "boiling" on the food lists but not steam. Just wondering if there is any difference in the nutritional values etc. in steamed versus raw.
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Peter
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Posted: 30 Sep 2006 02:46 pm |
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Using the Food Calculator on this site and raw vs. boiled, the difference for a stalk of broccoli is only one calorie out of 50.
Using the same weight for raw vs. boiled, the boiled stalk has only one more calorie... perhaps because some of the water was "boiled out" in the cooking, making the calorie concentration SLIGHTLY higher.
For practical purposes, I would consider boiled or steamed and raw the same if you measure it as raw.
(For example a cup of raw spinach would only contain a fraction of the amount of spinach of a cup or boiled spinach, though this difference would be insignificant with broccoli.)
Peter
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Nir
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Posted: 1 Oct 2006 05:57 pm |
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I'd agree that steamed (with a steamer) or indeed microwaved are both very similiar to boiled. When measuring by weight, there is sometimes quite a difference between raw and cooked (boiled, steamed, microwaved, broiled etc.)
For example, my pocket calorie-counting book lists 100g of boiled carrots as 24 calories, but 100g of raw carrots as 35 calories (45% more!)
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