Are dried herbs as nutritious as the fresh alternative?

[RosesandCuddles]

Are dried herbs as nutritious as the fresh alternative? I know it'll vary from herb to herb and of course the fresh alternative will most likely be more nutritious but are dried herbs considerably poorer in nutrient quantity/quality? I thought a quick google would answer it for me but surprisingly it doesn't so if anyone has useful references that'd be even better.

No idea but surely you're adding them for flavour, not their nutritional benefits?

Pretty much zero nutritional value in herbs! You use them for flavour.

You'd have to eat a massive quantity of fresh herbs to get any nutrition from them, as others have said, they are just for flavour.

Thanks for the replies. What about spices e.g. turmeric, ginger, etc.? Surely they are known as being nutritious/good for you despite being in the dried form and in small doses in food, right? or is that similar to the dried herbs?

You'd have to be taking a significant amount of turmeric in the form of a pill to get any of its anti-inflammatory properties -- way more than you would get from eating it as a food flavouring.

Agree - I am banned from taking tumeric capsules (because their interaction with my specific cancer med is unknown). But there is no restriction on it at ordinary culinary flavouring level because the amounts are small enough to be insignificant.

V quick searching ...
Example typical dose of curcumin from turmeric: 1g (1000mg) daily www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-662/turmeric
Amount of curcumin in pure dried turmeric ... 3.14% at best www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17044766/
So if 1g turmeric has 0.03g curcumin roughly, you'd need more than 30g daily.

37g in a jar! A whole jar, every day.
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Those are very much back-of-fag-packet calcs, but you get the idea!