{"id":11976,"date":"2012-06-28T03:51:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T10:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11976"},"modified":"2012-06-29T01:04:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T08:04:29","slug":"microwaves-convert-vitamin-b12-to-something-unusable-by-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/microwaves-convert-vitamin-b12-to-something-unusable-by-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Microwaves Convert Vitamin B12 to Something Unusable by Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/microwave-cooking-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11977\" title=\"microwave cooking facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/microwave-cooking-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/microwave-cooking-facts.jpg 559w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/microwave-cooking-facts-340x365.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microwave ovens convert Vitamin B12 to an inactive form unusable by humans. From a practical standpoint, this means typically around 30-40% of the Vitamin B12 in microwaved foods gets converted during the time it spends being heated or re-heated in a microwave oven.<\/p>\n<p>On the flip-side, spinach loses about 77% of its Vitamin B9 when cooked in a normal stove, but retains nearly all of it when cooked in a microwave.\u00a0 In the same way, steamed vegetables, as a rule, tend to retain more of their nutrients in a microwave than when cooked in a traditional oven.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/jf970670x\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microwave ovens convert Vitamin B12 to an inactive form unusable by humans. From a practical standpoint, this means typically around 30-40% of the Vitamin B12 in microwaved foods gets converted during the time it spends being heated or re-heated in a microwave oven. On the flip-side, spinach loses about 77% of its Vitamin B9 when cooked in a normal stove, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2808],"class_list":["post-11976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-microwave-cooking-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11978,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11976\/revisions\/11978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}