It's not clear that this is relevant to heart disease. Vitamin C, for example, is degraded by heat, but has no role in preventing heart disease. "Antioxidants" is the smoke signal of the woo practitioner.
>Overall, it seemed to me that cooking often harms nutrition more than it helps.
This is such a common and annoying myth that I need to call it out as such. Humans literally evolved to eat cooked food.
It's not clear that this is relevant to heart disease. Vitamin C, for example, is degraded by heat, but has no role in preventing heart disease. "Antioxidants" is the smoke signal of the woo practitioner.
>Overall, it seemed to me that cooking often harms nutrition more than it helps.
This is such a common and annoying myth that I need to call it out as such. Humans literally evolved to eat cooked food.
http://img2.timg.co.il/forums/1_142929513.pdf
http://symposium.cshlp.org/content/early/2009/10/19/sqb.2009...
https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/16498
https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/12770
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
Also, lycopene is not a "nutrient".