date:Sep 05, 2017
Water-soluble vitamins like vitamin C and the B vitamins, which include folate, leach out of vegetables if you boil them, but some will be retained in the stock, so use it if youre making soup, said Helen Rasmussen, a senior research dietitian at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. Vitamin levels are reduced the longer you expose them to heat; theyre just not stable, she said.
Levels of other nutrients, however, may increase. One study found that wh