Does boiling vegetables breakdown vitamins?
Boiling vegetables does break down some vitamins, but there is no easy solution (no pun intended). More vitamins are retained by microwave cooking than by any other method, and personally I think they taste better this way, however you then have very little water to make the gravy with. If you boil vegetables, water soluble vitamins like vitamin C are not destroyed, but are there in the water, the tip is to use the minimum amount of water and to boil for as little time as your taste allows. I have read many sites to seek one with the best advice, and to get an overall picture, the one I like best is “How to cook vegetables without losing their vitamins and nutrients” and is sourced below.
