phytates to “bind” those minerals,
a large percentage of those
nutrients are still available to us.)
In addition, many vegetable
preparation techniques (like
peeling starchy root vegetables)
remove much of the phytate.
Sure, if we “peeled” our whole
grains (i.e., milled away the bran
and germ), we’d be left with
fewer phytates—but then we’d
have refined grains, devoid of
most of the nutrition and fiber but
still containing all of the
concentrated carbohydrate.
Doesn’t seem like a very good
tradeoff to us.At this point, it’s tough to make the case
for the regular inclusion of grains in your diet
—and we haven’t even talked about gluten
yet.