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.
The noun QUART has 3 senses: 1. a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon. 2. a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters. 3. a United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches. Familiarity information: QUART used as a noun is uncommon.