diff --git a/docs/api-routes/api-middlewares.md b/docs/api-routes/api-middlewares.md
index 7f1b41d398d9..40b15ac2f718 100644
--- a/docs/api-routes/api-middlewares.md
+++ b/docs/api-routes/api-middlewares.md
@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@ export const config = {
 
 The `api` object includes all configs available for API routes.
 
-`bodyParser` Enables body parsing, you can disable it if you want to consume it as a `Stream`:
+`bodyParser` is automatically enabled. If you want to consume the body as a `Stream` or with [`raw-body`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/raw-body), you can set this to `false`.
+
+One use case for disabling the automatic `bodyParsing` is to allow you to verify the raw body of a **webhook** request, for example [from GitHub](https://docs.github.com/en/developers/webhooks-and-events/webhooks/securing-your-webhooks#validating-payloads-from-github).
 
 ```js
 export const config = {