Although boiling under significant heat can reduce lectins in food, you can reduce the lectin activity without heat treatment. Soaking seeds and grains before allowing them to germinate, or sprout, can help reduce lectins and phytates. However, be careful when you sprout legumes.
A quart is a unit of measurement for volume. It is a quarter of a gallon or two pints. Because the imperial system and the American system use different gallons their quarts are different too. In the American system there are two different quarts. There is a wet quart and a dry quart. There is only one imperial quart.
Medical Definition of quart. 1  1: a British unit of liquid or dry capacity equal to 1â4 gallon or 69.355 cubic inches or 1.136 liters. 2  2: a United States unit of liquid capacity equal to 1â4 gallon or 57.75 cubic inches or 0.946 liters.