Nutritional value of veggie water post-cook

cinnag4225
cinnag4225 Posts: 126 Member
edited June 2016 in Food and Nutrition
When I boil or steam some vegetables, I tend to use the water afterwards for drinks (especially carrots) and stock. I'm wondering how one would determine the nutritional value of this? I've tried googling but the results keep returning very general statements (nutrients lost when boiling, the water is good for you, etc).

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  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    It would be too variable for general testing results to be of much use I think. You'd have to know the ratio of water to veggie, how long it was boiled, how old/fresh the vegetables were, etc.
  • crazydogladyjess
    crazydogladyjess Posts: 128 Member
    It would be minimal I imagine. I'm sure it's healthy, but in terms of calories or carbs etc it would be so minimal that if you're asking from a logging perspective, that I wouldn't bother trying to log it.

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