You wash your vegetables before eating them. Good habit. But if you are washing them after cutting — you are making a critical mistake. And every nutrient you think you are eating is already going down the drain before the food reaches your mouth.
Cutting breaks the cell walls of the vegetable. The moment those walls break — water soluble vitamins are exposed. Vitamin C. Folate. B vitamins. All sitting right at the cut surface. The second water touches them — they dissolve. They flow off the v