Truths and myths about the jarred vegetables you buy in the supermarket

It is common to go to the supermarket and buy jar legumes so you don’t have to soak the chickpeas or lentils in water the night before cooking. However, many consumers believe that Potted legumes are less nutritious than dried legumes.. What is true in here? He responded to this question through social networks. Aitor Sánchez Garcíanutrition expert and very popular in this type of apps.

“It is very common to have this doubt because when looking at the nutritional values ​​of a bottled legume, they are always lower than those of dried legumes.“, begins by explaining Aitor. However, the expert assures that this fact does not mean that they are less nutritious, they are simply hydrated: “We have taken the beans, the chickpeas, the lentils, and when we filled them with water all their components have been diluted“.

That is why the nutritional composition of canned legumes is ‘worse’ than that of dried legumes, but “It is not that they have lost nutritional value, it is that now we are taking that legume with a little water“.

Definitely, Aitor Sánchez García He exposes in a video that he shared on his X account (formerly Twitter) that Buying legumes from a jar is a great option, especially if you don’t have time. Furthermore, there is no reason to wash these legumes, unless you want to use them in a salad in which they are loose.