Question about 100% RAW

[RighteousYogini]

Hi Everyone

Im reading a great book on the spirituality of RAW, one person's experiences. He went 100% overnight. My question is if you have, say, raisins that aren't sundried or that aren't sprouted, are you then considered NOT 100% RAW? If you have nuts that havent' been sprouted, does this mean now you're not 100%? Or is this the difference between eating LIVE versus RAW foods?

Thanks for any clarity.
E

[Raw Angel Mom]

I find when we first start on this journey, it is so critical to get comfortable first and not worry about some aspect such raisin, sundry tomato etc... You can try to do a research to see if we can buy this on line truly raw raisin etc...

But yes, it wouldn't be 100% raw technically. If you are seeking for quick improvement with your health and to go only with the best quality of food, then you can research dr. Ann Wingmore approach. They do only live food.

If you don't feel comfortable with this lifestyle, your mind may try to make you go back to your old ways.

You could always use dates instead of raisin or simply dehydrate your own tomato and raisin, which could take days. I try to dehydrate my own tomato, i find it taste better then the one i buy. I use the organic raisin that i buy for recipe.

[Aleesha Sattva]

100% is 100%... it's not 99%.

eating something not raw would not make you 100%

[RighteousYogini]

100% is 100%... it's not 99%.

eating something not raw would not make you 100%

I suppose the question is ascertaining what RAW means...since I dont think raisins are cooked. But I dont know. I also don't think nuts are cooked, but they too can be "not raw."

[Aleesha Sattva]

I love what Alissa says:


Just a reminder of Alissa Cohen’s philosophy:

I do not promote a high fat raw food diet which some claim. I promote freedom of choice. For those of you who think I promote a high fat diet, my first response to you would be… READ the book! My second response to people who think I promote a high fat raw food diet is, “no, what I promote is a no starvation diet. That means that if I eat my typical daily diet of juice, smoothies, salad and fruit but once in a while I want something else, like mock salmon pate on top of my salad or if I want a dessert after eating simply for a week or so, im going to have it. My point in doing raw food is not to analyze everything I put in my mouth and not to beat myself up if I want to eat something other then a fruit or vegetable.

My diet is probably much simpler then most peoples here so it’s funny when people say I promote high fat. I think they say that because they get so neurotic about having a handful of nuts once a week or they eat so lightly and then god forbid they have a raw dessert. It’s also bizarre to me that the people who are the strictest and have the most rules are the ones who are not 100% raw or who fall off the raw wagon constantly. My philosophy and book do not promote a high fat raw food diet. I talk about all of this in my book. I talk about transitioning and using lots of recipes at first and then moving away from that to a lighter diet. Im not sitting around making calzones all day. I eat mostly whole fruits, veggies, juice and salads.

But I know that the reason most people fall off of this diet is because they get too rigid. Yes, you may after a time of eating raw foods move gradually to a simpler diet. But if you put rules on yourself around what you can and can’t have within a raw food diet, there will be a day when you want a flax cracker, dessert, pate or a prepared raw recipe and if you don’t allow yourself to have it, you’ll be driving to the local pizza hut. Or, you’ll be white knuckling it. What kind of way is that to live? Certainly doesn’t sound like a fun, easy way to live to me. This diet is supposed to be about, in my opinion, freedom. Don’t make this more complicated then it is. Stress causes just as much if not more sickness in the body then what you eat. Relax, eat raw, and live.

[Aleesha Sattva]

and I love what she has to share here:

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/showthread.php?t=53430

[Aleesha Sattva]

and this section is helpful (specific but helpful) as well!

http://www.rawfoodtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=17

[reina80]

Aleesha - I couldn't get that podcast to play. Is it just my computer?

[Revvell]

Aleesha - I couldn't get that podcast to play. Is it just my computer?

See if this works for you ~ http://media.podcastingmanager.com/74678-81057/Media/RawkinRadio23.mp3

[LaniB]

great podcast

[Revvell]

Thankiss..

[kaleboy]

http://www.youtube.com/user/aniphyo#p/u/28/_Urmn9FCTkg

[bananaberrie]

http://www.youtube.com/user/aniphyo#p/u/28/_Urmn9FCTkg

Great clip, well said. Thanks for sharing, I just love Ani Phyo.

also, I'm no expert but raw nuts are raw, but soaked then they become live...but I'm not sure if that is what you were fully asking.

[Psychalone]

Hi Everyone

Im reading a great book on the spirituality of RAW, one person's experiences. He went 100% overnight. My question is if you have, say, raisins that aren't sundried or that aren't sprouted, are you then considered NOT 100% RAW? If you have nuts that havent' been sprouted, does this mean now you're not 100%? Or is this the difference between eating LIVE versus RAW foods?

Thanks for any clarity.
E

What determines a "raw" food, I believe is it's ezyme activity. Heating destroys the enzymes which in effect "cooks" it. Just being heated can't qualify or else the sun would count as an oven, lol. It's when it's heated like over 116degrees F?

Theres no way, that I'm aware of, to test whether raisons are "raw" or not, whether they're enzymatically active, unless you bring them to a lab. Nuts, seeds, beans and grains you can tell by sprouting them. If the do not sprout, they are dead and thus considered "cooked". Fruits and vegetables that are cooked will be have no water content.

A raw nut/seed/grain/bean still counts as a raw substance but to call it food would be folly at best. Due the enzyme inhibitors, phytates and other active properties found in these seeds (as a survival mechanism), they simply do not digest. This is a survival mechanism so that the seed can sprout and grow new life (usually in the stool of any animal or human that eats it). Plus in it's nut/seed/grain/bean form it's composed of proteins, fats and starch, when you sprout it, those become amino acids, fatty acids and simple sugars, plus the added water content and increase in enzymatic activity, it becomes a million times more digestible and assimilatable.

As for raisons, if you're attached to raisons but you want to be 100% sure you're getting them raw then I'd suggest dehydrating grapes yourself either using the sun or a dehydrator. Or if your worried about the digestibility you can find an ACTIVE enzyme supplement to take with foods that are questionable. This will garuntee you don't lose all the benefits of a raw foods diet, even if you "fall off the wagon" now and again.

Hope you find the clarity you seek