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Hey Guys,

 

I'm new here as I have a few burning questions to some hopefully mindful and wise people!

 

Let me introduce myself. I'm Miles from the UK. I'm 23 yo and I'm really into my nutrition and bodybuilding/strength training. I have been eating a vegan for about 4 weeks now and I'd like to say I'm satisfied but I'm not. I'm 80 kg and stand at 174.6 cm.

 

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I've attached my nutrition plan. It was something basic to get me started, so it looks quite bland and I totally understand it doesn't involve complete proteins etc. It wasn't until yesterday that I realized I wasn't getting enough protein purely because of the way I was cooking them (boiling the lentils and chickpeas) (the numbers I had written down on my nutrition program are therefore incorrect and so I'm not getting the desired amount of macro nutrients I thought I was getting. I didnt realise just how much boiling strips food of there macro nutrients. (by over half). So I began to do some research found out that steaming was better.

 

So I bought a steamer and began to cook soybeans and chickpeas in a steamer after presoaking them overnight.

 

However, I tipped the water residue that was left in the steamer after cooking into glasses and realised how much nutrients are still getting wasted.

 

I tip the beans out into a blender and then add all the nutrient abundant water from the steamer into it.

 

However, my drama with this is I'm still unsure if I'm still loosing macro nutrients even with drinking the nutrient abundant water.

 

My question being are there any nutrients being given off in the vapour or gases. I have read mixed opinions online of vapour is 100% h20. However that's not to say things aren't being given off amongst the vapour.

 

Since protein is a nitrogen source, I considered that in fact nitrogen could be given off as a gas and we wouldn't see it? I'm unsure whether nitrogen would be escaping as a gas and hence loosing protein.

 

If you do have sources for your information please could you provide them.

 

Look forward to hearing from you.

 

Miles

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Hi Miles, welcome to the forum. I've recently switch from boiling or frying to steaming and haven't looked back. I'm not sure on your answer but its probably impossible to to lose some nutrients when cooking. All the raw foodies will make that case.

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