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Re:How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US by goldenkey on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:01PM (#16990397)
The hydrochloric acid in the stomach is pretty strong, about 1.5 ph. Cooking is mild for most compounds compared to dissolution in strong acid. I don't think we cook too much. Like you said, it is mostly just predigestion.
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Re:How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US by echlebek on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:06PM (#16990429)
Cooked food provides more energy than raw food. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2011/12/08/why-calori...
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Re:How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US by jessaustin on Thursday May 03, 2018 @09:04PM (#16991403)
Is that something that most people on HN want? More energy from their food?
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Re:How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday May 04, 2018 @04:33AM (#16993081)
It would mean that they could eat less to get the same number of calories?
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Re:How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US by dtech on Friday May 04, 2018 @07:56AM (#16993827)
Food is currently so abundant that getting too much calories/obesity is large problem for both indiduals and society as a whole.

People want to eat more and get less calories, not the other way around.

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Re:How salad became a major source of food poisoning in the US by staplers on Thursday May 03, 2018 @06:30PM (#16990614)
"some foods" - from the article itself

FTFY.. it's a bad idea to make absolute statements like that

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