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From:	Jeff Novick, MS, RD, LD, LN (novick.vegsource.com)
Subject:	Re: Bean Powder
Date:	May 1, 2008 at 12:18 pm PST

In Reply to: Bean Powder posted by wes wilson on May 1, 2008 at 7:14 am:

Antinutrients are plant compounds which decrease the nutritional value of a plant food, usually by making an essential nutrient unavailable or indigestible when consumed by humans/animals.

For example, phytate, a common component of most seeds and cereals, forms a complex with some important minerals, making less of the minerals available to us.

Cooking and/or sprouting has been shown to reduce and/or eliminate the issue however, I do not know of any one chart that would tell you how long of either for each anti-nutrient or food.

In Health
Jeff

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