Cooked vs raw fruit

jendafer1

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know of any advantages/disadvantages to eating cooked (ie stewed or in a crumble) fruit rather than eating raw fruit. I'm not a massive fruit eater but I love eating it cooked. Ive had a look at a few websites but they all seem to contradict eachother. Some saw its easier to absorb nutrients if they are cooked, others say they lose their nutrient value...

thanks!

siochain

jendafer1 wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know of any advantages/disadvantages to eating cooked (ie stewed or in a crumble) fruit rather than eating raw fruit. I'm not a massive fruit eater but I love eating it cooked. Ive had a look at a few websites but they all seem to contradict eachother. Some saw its easier to absorb nutrients if they are cooked, others say they lose their nutrient value...

thanks!

Only fruit I know if that gets better nutritionaly with heating is tomatoes. Could be others.

I would guess that heating/cooking would increase the glycemic load of most fruits which I would see as a disadvantage.

rubadub

The problem with "cooking" is that its a very vague term, a lot of them time when you hear the likes of "microwaves destroy all nutrients", they do not give times. I do expect a carrot in a microwave for an hour to have had nutrients depleted. If a kilo of carrots were gently warmed in a microwave for 2mins its not the same.

I'm not a massive fruit eater but I love eating it cooked

Even if it did deplete a little you could be better off cooking, as you are more likely to eat it, so could be more beneficial overall.

hellosunshine2

If you Google advantage/disadvantage of eating raw vs cooked fruits, you will really find massive results. Regardless of what these results say, I think it is good that you're eating fruits whether cooked or not than eat no fruits at all. After all, fruits are good for our health.

brownej

jendafer1 wrote: »

Hi everyone,

Does anyone know of any advantages/disadvantages to eating cooked (ie stewed or in a crumble) fruit rather than eating raw fruit. I'm not a massive fruit eater but I love eating it cooked. Ive had a look at a few websites but they all seem to contradict eachother. Some saw its easier to absorb nutrients if they are cooked, others say they lose their nutrient value...

thanks!

The problem I see with cooking fruit by stewing or otherwise is the refined sugar (sometimes massive quantities) that gets added during cooking. Even poaching tends to be done in a sugar syrup.
As for crumble, there tends to be alot of sugar in that too. It's grand as a desert once in a while but probably not recommended as your 5 a day.

Have you tried making smoothies out of fruit?