Question

Constance is making a vegetable soup that contains carrots, beans, water, salt, pepper, bits of ham, and onions. the soup has to cook for 4 hours. while the soup is cooking, what will happen to some of the minerals that are in its ingredients?

Answer 1

During the cooking process and due to the presence of heat, some of the minerals from the ingredients as well as part of the fluid found within the ingredients will just leak out of the ingredients into the soup and become part of the soup itself.