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Would it still grow?
And from there...
If you microwave food, do you kill off any nutrients?
And from there...
If you microwave food, do you kill off any nutrients?
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OneWingedImp
Member
I thought you were gonna try and make weed popcorn!
i put some seeds in the microwave and they started popping 
they will not grow!
they will not grow!
b10narybud
Member
dude, put some seeds in butter and try that popcorn shit
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Relik
As it's been said, I think you can microwave a seed for a short time and still have it sprout. However, that will not produce female seeds, as I have heard some people say. 
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cheeseburger
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....Indicad2006 said:
G
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Then why do we microwave or cook food if it kills off nutrients. Just kinda weird. Maybe we should all go raw.
cheeseburger
Member
Indicad2006 said:
I don't know, it is much better to steam your food. but face it if you were selling microwave ovens, would you want that information out. They have actuall done studies that say just the opposite. two sides to everything. for every study that says it does, there is another study that says it doesn't. But if you know how a mocrowave oven works, then you know that the concentration of heat is too high. if you put a mocrowave on lower power, there is still the same amount of heat, it just breaks up the heat intermittantly so it doesn't get too hot too fast.
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927. Why does microwave radiation affect plant seeds differently? If you microwave sunflower seeds 30 seconds, they germinate faster than if you did not microwave them at all, and yet if you microwave them for 60 seconds, the seeds do not germinate at all. If you do this same experiment with carrot seeds, the non-radiated seeds, the 30 second and 60 second seeds all germinate within 14 days. Why? Is it because the sunflower seeds are larger and absorb more radiation than the smaller carrot seeds? -- ST, Mobile, ALIndicad2006 said:
When you expose the seeds to microwave radiation, you are selectively heating portions of the insides of the seeds. Fats and oils don't absorb microwaves well but water does, so the parts of the seeds that become hottest are those that contain the most water molecules. Evidently, heating the water-containing portion of a sunflower seeds slightly cause that seed to germinate faster, but heating that same portion too much sterilizes the seed. That observation indicates that a moderate temperature rise causes the chemical reactions of germination to occur more rapidly while a more severe temperature rise denatures some of the critical biological molecules and kills the seed. The absence of any effect in carrot seeds may indicate that they don't have enough water in them to absorb the microwaves. It may also indicate that they can tolerate higher temperatures without undergoing the chemical reactions of germination and without experiencing damage to their critical molecules.
http://howthingswork.virginia.edu/microwave_ovens.html
