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Vegetables lost colour in steamer why?

I put some Broccoli and Cauliflower in the steamer yesterday and after the alloted time they were cooked but had lost a lot of their colour why did this happen, the Broccoli turned a bland green colour?

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    Lv 7
    1 decade ago
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    The compounds that give the vegetables their color break down in the heat. The more you cook them, the more they break down.

  • 1 decade ago

    they suppose to it gets rid off the badness in them and the steam just gets ride off the Colour it will do it to any food u put in it its the compounds that break up

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