If cooking vegetables lose nutrients, do they go into the broth?

[jimbean]

i never tried to eat "right" from breakfast to supper every day until my heart problem of late
so now i am eating basically morning, noon and night a soup concoction of my own creation, carrots, onions, potatoes with peels on, celery, pork with the fat, lettuce, brown rice, broccoli, brussels sprouts..... and no salt but with a pizza seasoning
But every time when i read "pronounced {reed}" on the internet they say cooking takes away from a lot of vegetables but does the minerals and vitamins JUST go into the broth or do they transmute into lead like all things on earth do eventually

 

[Barriehie]

Minerals aren't going to change much unless you add either acidic or basic ingredients to your pot. Vitamins are more affected by high heat and prolonged cooking times and it depends on the vitamin. They're not all the same. To preserve as much as possible you could steam the veggies and when done add to your seasoned meat broth/soup concoction .

Edit: The water soluble components, to a degree, will leach/dissolve into the water.

 

[blades]

Raw veggies are healthy. So are cooked ones. Don't get too bothered about TV commercials that are trying to sell you the most expensive way on the planet to buy them.