> If you cook fiber it
> turns to mush. Get a picture in your mind of eating a carrot
> raw and then get a picture of eating a serving of boiled carrots.
> Imagine the difference between the textures of the two as
> you chew and swallow these carrots and try to figure out in
> your mind which one would move through your intestines
> better. The choice, of course, is obvious.

> Anyone care to confirm or
> set me straight on that one?

If you eat fiber in raw carrots it turns to mush in your stomach; its called
chime.  Stomach acids and digestive enzymes mix with food to produce chime
before it enters the small intestine for absorption.

Rob