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Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)
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Tuesday, June 04, 2024 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.
Question:
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Could you please talk a little about roasting/toasting nuts and seeds. I know they are even more delicious, but I thought that heating the oils inside them made them less nutritious.?
— Lisa Cronin
Answer:
When you do heat up, uh, nuts and seeds and you're toasting them, you are losing some, uh, of the nutritional value to them, but not very much. We're talking about very microscopic amounts between those. Um, and quite honestly, the amount of flavor that you get out of roasting or toasting them, I would say kind of supersedes the nutritional value because it'll actually make you want to eat more of them at the same time and you're getting most of the nutritional value out of them as well. Um, like if you're, you know, going to like deep fry nuts or something like that, that would be probably something different where you'll get rid of a lot more of the nutritional value, but just giving them a toast until they're lightly brown in a, a tape pan or something like that, um, you're not gonna lose a lot of your nutritional value out of that. So, uh, I would, you know, definitely recommend doing it to be able to get the biggest flavor, um, out of those things, uh, um, as possible.
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