Raw vegetables have more defense chemicals than cooked vegetables, and beans contain non-protein amino acids that can cause protein misfolding.

“Cooked vegetables are going to have less defense chemicals, raw vegetables are going to have more. If you are curious what type of defense chemicals I'm talking about, refer to last week's podcast, where I talked about non-protein amino acids, which are abundant in things like beans, problem, could cause protein misfolding, etc.”