Scienticians wanter: why does cooking kumara increase vits?

[henward]

http://www.healthaliciousness.com/nutritionfacts/nutrition-facts-compare.php

is this real?

baking in skin increasing carotenes?

Im thinking it is because the food is dryer and less moisture so the % concentration is greater in comparison to the weight of the food?

[Jennifer]

It may have to do with cellulolytic bacteria in your intestines (bacteria that can break down cellulose in plant material). Picture this, if you eat a raw carrot, some large bits come out the other end undigested because we lack the digestive processes (bacteria in this case) to break it down. That is exactly why cooking carrots releases so much more nutritional value for us, it exposes the surface area of the nutritious parts of the carrot so that we can digest it all. I would think it would be similar for other vegetables,

[henward]

So, instead of feeding and gutloading mealworms with Sweet potato raw, i should bake the kumara then feed it to mealworms?

so fish can get more of the vits?

i can dot hat its easy:D