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-a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon. United States liquid unit-a liquid unit officially adopted in the United States Customary System.pint-a United States liquid unit equal to 16 fluid ounces; two pints equal one quart. 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). c. A unit of volume or capacity in the British Imperial System, used in liquid and dry measure, equal to 1.201 US liquid quarts or 1.032 US dry quarts (1.136 liters). See Table at measurement. 2.