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.
quart. n. 1. Abbr. qt. or q. a. A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in liquid measure, equal to 1 / 4 gallon or 32 ounces (0.946 liter). b. A unit of volume or capacity in the US Customary System, used in dry measure, equal to 1 / 8 peck or 2 pints (1.101 liters).uart. n. 1. (Units) a unit of liquid measure equal to a quarter of a gallon or two pints. 1 US quart (0.946 litre) is equal to 0.8326 UK quart. 1 UK quart (1.136 litres) is equal to 1.2009 US quarts.