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From:	Jeff Novick, MS, RD, LD, LN (novick.vegsource.com)
Subject:	Re: Water in which pasta is cooked: should it be discarded or reused as a broth?
Date:	July 3, 2009 at 7:55 am PST

In Reply to: Water in which pasta is cooked: should it be discarded or reused as a broth? posted by davidg on July 2, 2009 at 9:04 pm:

Greetings,

I have no professional definitive answer for you but my guess is that the water has some value and there are some water soluble nutrients that would leech out in to the water along with some starch/carbohydrates. Whole wheat pasta would have more nutrients in general.

In Health
Jeff

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