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Nutrient density and bioavailability are two very different things. Kale is extremely nutrient dense but as the parent poster has pointed out, the anti-nutrient
by metanoia 7y ago
Nutrient density and bioavailability are two very different things. Kale is extremely nutrient dense but as the parent poster has pointed out, the anti-nutrients [1] reduce the absorption of said nutrients.
You can take kale into a lab and determine that it has so much of nutrient X and Y but in reality, do you absorb it?
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663599/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4663599/