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Does baking change nutrition value of ingredients?

JessiLeeD14
JessiLeeD14 Posts: 8
edited February 16 in Food and Nutrition
Ok, this might be a stupid question, but when you bake stuff, does the nutritional value change? For example, if I'm making muffins, is it safe to say if I add up all of the information of all of the ingredients and divide by the number or muffins, I can figure out how much is in one? Or would it change once I bake it?

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  • Hadabetter
    Hadabetter Posts: 942 Member
    For baking, no. Don't worry about it.

    For things like vegetables, cooking actually increases the amount of nutrients your body can receive from them. In fact, there are some anthropologists who have theorized that had we not discovered how to manage fire and use it to cook our food, we might not have gotten enough nutrients out of it to have survived as a species.
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