physically speaking, what does the act of cooking do to vegetables

What kind of vegetables are you eating that are inedible before cooking?

>>8925686
aren't they all inedible without cooking it?

>>8925689
>americans

>>8925694
>yuropoors

see? i can do it too

>>8925689
Good lord. Have you never eaten fresh vegetables???

You can JUST BITE into a carrot and eat it.

>>8925700
thanks for proving me right then

>>8925701
yeah but only some vegetables can be eaten like that

can you eat raw potatoes?

>>8925703
It is possible

>>8925703
>can you eat raw potatoes?
Yes. They just don't taste very good and are slightly poisonous.

They are a special cases because cooking reduces the levels of toxins are a protective measure of the plant itself.

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>>8925689

No wonder Americans are so fat, Jesus christ.

>>8925685
>>8925689
You're not that retarded, just a little. There's a lot of vegetables that you really wouldn't ever eat without cooking them. Eating raw potatoes I really wouldn't recommend. Even for stuff like carrots that are really tasty raw as well you're better off cooking them nutrition wise.

>>8925694
I don't know why you had to make it a nationality thing as if that's a common belief.
Tell me your country and I'll find an idiot from there and greentext the name of its citizens as if it's representative.

>>8925685
Generally the high heat denatures the toxic proteins and breaks down other macromolecules into their components making the food easier to digest as it's the components you want anyways and your body would just have to break them down itself otherwise.

>>8925689
You mean you think tomatoes or lettuce are not edible unless cooked?

>>8925863
>tomato
>vegetable

>>8925866
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable

>>8925873
tomato is a fruit you plebian

>>8925689
Is okay anon I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that your parents did not cool a single meal from scratch, it's the sad fact in America that almost nobody knows how to cook.

But you should give veggies a try raw sometimes, radishes, broccoli, carrots, bell peppers, almost anything you would find in an American grocery store you can eat raw, hell even an onion. Most of your leafy greens too. They tend to me more nutritious too so go to your grocery store and give it a try anon you might did it. Now there are some more exotic things that require cooking to make them edible but I doubt you'll be working with any of that.

>>8925918
And gender is a spectrum, the earth is flat, 0.99..=/=1 and races do not exist.

>>8925938
But as to why shit is cooked certain food structures don't become edible until it'd cooked also some toxins in certain vegetables and fruits can be broken down /denatured to safe levels by heating them or soaking them in water.

>>8925942
>races do not exist
they might exist, but they're called ethnicities and not races. Dwarf, elf, halfing, etc. are races.

>>8925689
>EUROEPEENS

>>8925918
From a botanical point of view, you are correct. But the semantics of fruit are not the same in botany as in the culinary arts. For the purposes of cooking tomatoes are not fruits, but vegetables, in the same way an eggplant is not considered a berry, despite being one according to all biological definitions.

>>8925942
Impressive, literally everything you said was wrong.

>>8929172
He was lumping in the 'tomatoes are a fruit' statement with those other incorrect statements to imply that 'tomatoes are a fruit' is incorrect as well

you know that not being able to follow conversational context is a sign of autism?

>>8925845
israel

>>8927565
>the semantics of fruit are not the same in botany as in the culinary arts.
this is /sci/ not /ck/
the tomato is a fruit