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Old 08-11-2012, 12:52 AM
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I always weigh my vegetables raw and then cook them. Once they're cooked into a soup I can't take them back out to weigh each vegetable very easily. lol At least I imagine that would make a big mess with broth everywhere.

I like the taste of raw cauliflower and cabbage but I can't eat it anymore or at least I feel I should cut back on that, because I was told I have subclinical hypothryroidism so I read that I should avoid raw goitrogenic vegetables. It's a shame because when I was cooking them I'd eat some raw and some cooked and that was fun.
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Old 10-20-2012, 08:14 AM
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Just wanted to throw out this idea...I have never been a broccoli fan, but last summer a friend charcoal-grilled some, and it was delicious. It totally changed the texture. I'm in love!
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Old 07-07-2015, 03:00 AM
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Originally Posted by cjohnson728
The answers given are not necessarily incorrect. While there is some truth to the fact that cooked vegetables can have slightly more calories due to starches generated in cooking, that is not what this question refers to. If you search "broccoli, cooked" in FitDay, you get about 103 calories per cup. If you search raw, you get about 30 calories per cup. The difference in cooked and raw forms does not account for 70 calories, no way, and no matter how much more your body supposedly has to work to break it down. The FitDay search function is such that you have to specify cooked, fat not added in cooking in order to obtain the accurate measure, if that indeed is how it was prepared, as Frenchhen noted above. Same goes for frozen fruits; for some reason it assumes sugared unless you specify.
Thank you for this response - - it was helpful and answered a lot of questions !
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Old 07-07-2015, 04:18 AM
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I've been eating a lot of broccoli lately (kind of tired of it now). I usually buy the florets, frozen. It's amazing what a nice hefty-looking bag of frozen vegetables produces, once the contents have been cooked. I can smoosh that cooked broccoli into a cup measure and wonder at how small it got...
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Old 12-14-2015, 06:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Kathy13118
I've been eating a lot of broccoli lately (kind of tired of it now). I usually buy the florets, frozen. It's amazing what a nice hefty-looking bag of frozen vegetables produces, once the contents have been cooked. I can smoosh that cooked broccoli into a cup measure and wonder at how small it got...
Cruciferous vegetables, including broccoli, should only be eaten cooked if you have a slow metabolism.
Eating raw cruciferous vegetables actually suppresses your thyroid's hormone production, creating fatigue, coldness in your body and a slowing of your metabolism. Cruciferous vegetables include broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, mustard greens, radishes, rutabagas and turnips.
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Old 12-16-2015, 08:37 PM
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I like all the dishes with lots of veggies in it as it makes food healthy and tasty too.
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Old 12-28-2015, 05:56 PM
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Hi, I always want a cooked Broccoli than the raw one. But, I don't overcooked them because I was advise by my mom that it destroys the beneficial enzyme. I have read too that raw vegetables has more nutrients than the cooked one.
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Old 08-22-2017, 05:22 PM
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A lot of foods including veggies and meats lose a fair bit of moisture and size when cooked. Therefore the weight is different pre vs post cooking.
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