From Jack Kinzley
Ilford, Essex
In your story on food irradiation, you say that “although irradiation damages
vitamins, the same thing happens during cooking”
(This Week, 3 January, p 14).
This is precisely why some people eat exclusively uncooked foods—fruit,
raw vegetables, nuts, sprouted seeds—since heat destroys significant
quantities of vitamins and enzymes. We feel that this diet noticeably increases
our health and vitality.
It is not reassuring to be told that irradiation only damages fruit and
vegetables to the same extent that cooking would.
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