Are vegetables hard to digest?!
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no but alot of people have trouble digesting corn
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No they're easy.
Raw vegetables are rough at first, but in fact you body loves them- they have all the vitamin and mineral and water content they can, and this helps your digestion. You will see them coming out the other end easily!
Some veg are soft- zucchini, tomatoes, mushrooms etc- your body leeches all the vtamins from them, and the water, and then the rest of the veg- the fibre part, cleans your colon as it passes through.
Nature designed vegetables to be out most friendly food, it gives us all the vitamins and nutirents we need, plus some fats contained in the food ( sesame seeds, coconuts, garlic, all have oils) and then clean your bowels as well.
Perfect food for humans.
Ieat raw a lot. When you cook all your veg, they can produce a lot more gas inside you- the cooking breaks down the cellulose walls and releases the gas forming properties in the veg, and if you ate a bowl of cooked courgettes and leeks, you'd have it inside you longer than if you ate the same vegetables raw.
That is, if your digestion is OK to begin with. SOme people have years worth of cheese, meat, white flour and other sticky substances in their intestines, and it may take a few days of lightly cooked, or raw vegetable eating to help your colon along.
Once you've got a nicely working intestine, there is nothing better to eat.
PS someone mentioned corn- that's right. Corn has a lot of sugar and this sugar can be hard to digest for some people- it IS the thing that high fructose corn syrup comes from, so go easy on that.
WHen I eat a lot of corn I get terrible liver swelling.
Not all vegetables digest the same way, it will depend on the amount of fiber, fat and carbohydrates on them.
think Avocados, Potatoes, Carrots and Celery, all different in composition.
Some vegetables can be just as easy to digest as fruits, since they also contain a high percentage of water. When the percentage of water in the vegetable drops off and the starch and fiber rise, the vegetable becomes harder to digest.
Green leafy vegetables have the highest percentage of water and are the easiest to digest, needing approximately 45 minutes to digest. However, if you are adding dressings that are high in cream or saturated oils the time of digestion will increase. Your best bet is to go with an oil and vinegar dressing and avoid the creamy dressings.
Vegetables that will take a little longer to digest because of their amount of fiber are cabbage, carrots and beets. You can steam the cabbage and carrots to ease the digestion a bit, but generally these vegetables will still digest more quickly than starches and proteins due to their high water content.
Lastly, starchy vegetables will take the longest to digest in the vegetable category, needing two or more hours for full digestion. These include potatoes, squash, yams, and rutabagas. Baking these vegetables will help to quicken digestion, but steaming them will work better as that will increase their water content.
Non-starchy vegetables:
Non-starchy vegetables are okay to combine with all other food groups. This is due to their quicker digestion time and lack of neutralizing acids. Just be sure to eat the vegetable before the starch or protein and remember the "food traffic jam", put the fastest digesting foods in your mouth first.
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A whole lot easier to digest than animal products.
no they should not be but if your haveing problems digesting emm u can always boil emm into a soup and eat it that way
no