Was your mom right that overcooking leafy vegetables removes their nutrients?

Cooking vegetables can be tricky especially when they are a main dish. On the one hand, you have to make soup to make the food soluble, but on the other hand, you risk cooking the vegetables beyond their limit.

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This conflict is made worse by the complex childhood relationship with vegetables in most African homes. Not only was eating some of these veggies a tug of war, but the “undercooked” ones would never make the cut.

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