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Default Soaking beans - nutrients in water?

On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 12:42:53 GMT, "derng" > took a
very strange color crayon and scribbled:

>Would you happen to know if water saved from boiling potatoes is
>particularly high in any nutrients?


It's got starch in it...dunno about anything else. (In very old times,
this was a source of starch for ironing. As I'm not into Victorian
survival rituals, I haven't got any more details.)


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