Cooked Carrot vs Raw Carrots

susy99
susy99 Posts: 82 Member
edited October 2024 in Food and Nutrition
New thing to me: my nutritionist told me that raw carrots tend to have less carbs than cooked. So she prefers that when I eat a carrot to have raw and not cooked.

Does anyone know the reason? I stopped cooking carrots!!

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  • PegasusDeb
    PegasusDeb Posts: 665 Member
    Isn't that true for most vegy's? They lose some of their nutrients when cooked. I LOVE them steamed.
  • AngelikaLumiere
    AngelikaLumiere Posts: 862 Member
    When you cook carrots it makes more of their sugars accessible to your digestive system. When they are raw some of the sugars pass through as fiber. That's the way a cook explained it to me once. All I know is if you cook them my husband won't eat them.
  • RoanneRed
    RoanneRed Posts: 429 Member
    I don't like them cooked anyway - grew up eating them raw as a snack while Mum was getting dinner ready.
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