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Exposure must make at least some difference in digesting foods, right?
I was going to write about Dream_Tunisia just now, but I got distracted reading people arguing about the merits of a mostly meat vs. a mostly vegetable diet. (Thanks, internet. Thanks, my own distractibility and lack of willpower.)
Anyway, someone mentioned how they felt sick eating raw broccoli. They'd tried to eat it after hearing it was healthy, but they never ate it raw as a kid, and now it made them bloated and nauseous. Another person chimed in that there's a reason kids avoid broccoli - they INSTINCTIVELY know that stuff is no good raw.
But do they? I liked raw broccoli as a kid, better than the cooked stuff. Crunchy broccoli, cauliflower, carrots: all of these I enjoyed. Carrots more than the others. Probably because of the sweeter taste, but then I hated beets for a good while...go figure.
ANYWAY. I'm no biochemist, but I suspect the taste issue is because some people are more sensitive to bitter tastes in greens, and the stomach-upset issue is because there IS something in broccoli that makes you gassy. One time I ate too much at once and was converted, for a few minutes, into a miserable fart factory ("farter" has the whole drama, I think).
In short, nothing about the raw broccoli argument proves raw vegetables = bad. Yeah, some need to be cooked to remove toxins, others to make them more digestible. But a lot of vegetables CAN be eaten raw, it's just that they won't agree with everyone. (And not everyone will agree about them, in return.)
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