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By NANCY SECRIST
VP I Extension Agent
It is often thought that eating vegetables raw guarantees getting the most nutrients but this is not always the case. Vitamin C is destructible by heat so some raw source of vitamin C should be eaten every day. But cooking vegetables breaks down the cellulose structure and makes other vitamins more accessible than they would be otherwise.
One of the best methods of cooking vegetables is steaming. Put a collapsible steamer basket (available in Rappahannock at Nature’s Foods in Washington) in a saucepan which has one inch of boiling water. Place vegetables in the basket, put on a close-fitting lid and
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