Nuts?!

[apples123]

What do you think are good organic, raw nuts to eat? Sunflower, almond, walnuts? I'm trying to eat seeds and nuts, I hardly get enough protein. Brazil nuts?
I wonder if it is bad if you are really trying to go raw, to eat nuts that aren't raw?
And cashews seem toxic I have been seeing, they are so delicious?

Why do you avoid these foods, do they give you disease?

In Rainbow Green Gabriel Cousens says "foods with notably high mycotoxin and fungal count are corn, peanuts, cottonseed, cashews, barley, oats, wheat and malted products." page 24-25

[sport]

Nuts and seeds are mainly a source of fats and not protein. Greens and sprouts are the best source of protein.
Download cronometer.com and put in what ever food you want and it will give you the fat and protein in it.

[MysticTree]

sprouted foods are great. Remember the herbivores such as cows get all the protein they need from eating grass. Try not to get hung up on the protein thing. It's amino acids you really need to think about. You'll get plenty as long as you eat a good variety and quantity of raw foods.

[fastfreedom]

If you're eating raw plants then you are getting the optimum amounts of protein your body requires. Eating a large staple of your diet in nuts and seeds is going to greatly increase the fat calories and make your body more acidic......and in my experience, more lethargic. Why do you think you need more protein?.....I could go on a rant here with the protein lies of the meat industry........but I shall not.

[Non]

Uhm.. eating nuts for protein... Yea they might acidic. I just don't have the money to be have a high fruit diet. At least.. that's how it seems to me at this point. I haven't calculated it before but I just tried doing it for a day or so and I ended up spending lots of money and it wasn't even organic. Besides store bought fruits aren't as good as wild fruits of course.

So.. I do high nuts. Next step for me is high sprouts. That would probably be the ultimate for a person on a budget. Learn raw foods foraging if you can also.
As for nuts that are high in protein: all the fatty seeds. Hemp, sunflower, pumpkin, almond (i know that's a nut but w/e), flax, chia, sesame.
These all work absolute best when germinated (soaked). If you're worried about he fat content well, at least germinate them a little more longer enough to see some sprouts. I've never seen pumpkin seeds sprout though. Maybe its just me. Green them if you want to be really low fat.. but then you're going to have to find a good source of carbs for that.

As for the acidity of fats.. yea it's probably better to sprout them so that they become less acidic and balance it out with greens. It's not bad that they're acidic it just has to be counter balanced.

[fastfreedom]

Uhm.. eating nuts for protein... Yea they might acidic. I just don't have the money to be have a high fruit diet. At least.. that's how it seems to me at this point. I haven't calculated it before but I just tried doing it for a day or so and I ended up spending lots of money and it wasn't even organic.

You can eat cheap or expensive on raw plants. But I've found fruits to be pretty much the same as anything else. I can eat on as little as $3 a day if I wish, by eating fruit, and that's a LOT of food.


Besides store bought fruits aren't as good as wild fruits of course.

That applies to all store bought produce though.....not just fruit.


apples123 - IMO, I think all those nuts/seeds are fine to eat, if it's quality.

[SunshineMN]

Don't forget sprouted amaranth and quinoa. Both are complete proteins and very good for you! Both are gluten free as well.

[Non]

You can eat cheap or expensive on raw plants. But I've found fruits to be pretty much the same as anything else. I can eat on as little as $3 a day if I wish, by eating fruit, and that's a LOT of food.



That applies to all store bought produce though.....not just fruit.


apples123 - IMO, I think all those nuts/seeds are fine to eat, if it's quality.

3 $? I bet it's not organic. I have an obession/hate with not eating organic stuff.

Well let me take that back. I mean, I fear the stuff. Except for maybe a few. Look at the list of "things to buy organic" and you'll see that most of the fruits there I would buy are recommended to be organic. Bananas too now because they spray it with something to keep it yellow.

[fastfreedom]

Under $5 for organic. LOL

[Non]

Under $5 for organic. LOL

wtf? lol.

I wonder what you're eating! and does that include greens? one head of organic greens is easily 3-4 bucks.

[Living Food]

Remember the herbivores such as cows get all the protein they need from eating grass. Try not to get hung up on the protein thing. It's amino acids you really need to think about. You'll get plenty as long as you eat a good variety and quantity of raw foods.

True, but I don't think cows are a good example - do you know how much protein they're getting from all that grass? It's probably hundreds of grams.


I've never seen pumpkin seeds sprout though. Maybe its just me.

I've sprouted them, but if you're not careful then the tail grows too long and they start growing root hairs.

[walnutty]

I can eat on as little as $3 a day if I wish, by eating fruit, and that's a LOT of food.


Okay, please, please, please tell me how you do this as I am very financially challenged. I have had to give up driving to be raw right now, because I just didn't have the money otherwise!

[Living Food]

Okay, please, please, please tell me how you do this as I am very financially challenged. I have had to give up driving to be raw right now, because I just didn't have the money otherwise!

I wouldn't want to live on a fruit diet even if it was completely free...but it's your choice. Sprouts can be very cheap also, I might add (and are infinitely more nutritious).

Store-bought fruit diet *shudder* bring on the nutritional deficiencies.

[fastfreedom]

You definitely don't wanna eat what $5 will afford you day in and day out. Just saying that raw food of any variety can be expensive or cheap. If I lived on that super cheap diet of eating the same thing everyday then I'm quite sure I would have deficiencies, and get very bored.

The greens are free this time of year. I eat the, "weeds", from my garden area. Organic and super cheap.....LOL.

I've got LOTS of sunflower seeds I can sprout. I wish I would of bought more variety, but I have around 9 gallons, "45 lbs or so", of sunflower seeds left. Sprouts are very cheap. I think I paid $35 for 50lbs of organic sunflower seeds.

Also for everyone's information that doesn't already know.....google produce wholesalers in your area. Bulk for cheap before it finds its way to the grocery stores.

[Living Food]

I've got LOTS of sunflower seeds I can sprout. I wish I would of bought more variety, but I have around 9 gallons, "45 lbs or so", of sunflower seeds left. Sprouts are very cheap. I think I paid $35 for 50lbs of organic sunflower seeds.

Great - try having a tray of sunflower greens every day if you're not already...or are they the hulled variety that you have?


You definitely don't wanna eat what $5 will afford you day in and day out. Just saying that raw food of any variety can be expensive or cheap. If I lived on that super cheap diet of eating the same thing everyday then I'm quite sure I would have deficiencies, and get very bored.

I'm living on about $5 of sprouts/day, and I could easily keep it up forever without any nutritional deficiencies. But I agree that it would be a very bad idea to live on $5 of fruit/day for a long time. Sprouts have so many more nutrients, and more important, they're still alive and growing when you eat them - a stark contrast to almost-dead store-bought fruit (and vegetables, for that matter).

[Raw Angel Mom]

Go with greens and you be will set for the protein and building up.

You need 8 essential amino acid. All of them are found in a simple apple or a simple tomato. RAWsome by Brigitte Mars is a great reference book.

People that eat flesh, their body will convert the protein into an amino acid and then to the protein the body want. With fruits, it is already in amino acid form and so so much higher quality because cooking alter the structure of the protein or amino acid and brake down the sulfure. You have literally a cripple protein.

A very high content of protein is spirulina and even a plantain banana. You will never hear someone being protein deficient. They measured the level of protein and nutrient content from people that did 40 days water fast (not recommended unless you research for years), and the amount was almost the same before and after. So this is to tell you that if you eat a variety of color food and the very least fruit, you will be all set. If you want to gain in term of muscle, you need to go with greens. Energy, you go with fruits.

All the best!

[robh]

I eat nuts. I don't, however, eat them for protein.

Nuts are a rich source of good fats. They also are a great source for minerals. If all you ate were fruits and veggies, you'd be missing out on a lot of minerals. Nuts and seeds (seeds more so than nuts) help fill the mineral gap.

Also, almonds are my favorite source of vitamin E!

To get everything my body needs, I need to consume fruit, vegetables, greens, nuts and seeds. These components are like wheels on a car, if you try to go without one, you will notice!

[SunshineMN]

Here's a great link to read about protein (http://www.rawfoodexplained.com/proteins/index.html). I think they do a great job talking about it.

[walnutty]

Watch this to see why nuts and seeds are SO VERY important!:


http://www.longevitywarehouse.com/Articles.asp?ID=486

[Non]

Watch this to see why nuts and seeds are SO VERY important!:


http://www.longevitywarehouse.com/Articles.asp?ID=486

good video. Thanks for that.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Go with greens and you be will set for the protein and building up.

People that eat flesh, their body will convert the protein into an amino acid and then to the protein the body want. With fruits, it is already in amino acid form and so so much higher quality because cooking alter the structure of the protein or amino acid and brake down the sulfure. You have literally a cripple protein.
All good points.


You will never hear someone being protein deficient.
Hmmm. What about all the people (51%) on the hallelujah diet who suffered muscle wastage over a period of years?

l never used to have much muscle and was weak, but since l have been on the sprout diet l have more muscle than l have ever dreamed of and have real strength. Why is this?...maybe l was protein deficient. When l do weight bearing exercise l rapidly develop muscle.



They measured the level of protein and nutrient content from people that did 40 days water fast (not recommended unless you research for years), and the amount was almost the same before and after.

ls this conclusive enough?

Thanks for posting Raw Angel Mum. And yes, the greens are great for proteins, especially the sprouts that have roughly four times the amounts over green vegetables.

6 cups of lentil sprouts = 30 grams of highly digestable protein.
24 oz of sprout juice = 25 grams of highly digestable protein.
4 oz of wheatgrass juice = 4 grams of 100% fully digestable protein
20 chlorella tabs = about 12 grams of highly digestable protein
lf you eat kelp, E3 live and a variety of sprouted seeds you can end up with 100 grams of mainly pre-digested protein. No wonder it is so easy to develop muscle on the diet so easily. But on other diets people can wither away and become weak because picking non fresh vegetables sources can be hard to get enough protein. And eventhough many like to have nuts, we must not forget that many nuts are rancid after 4 months because they won't sprout, so nuts should only be eaten seasonally, not all year around.

[Non]

Of course eh... any fruitarian can also say that this research by Joel Furhman isn't conclusive enough since that it merely takes into account a generally vegan diet INCLUSIVE of cooked veganism, not raw veganism.

[Living Food]

20 chlorella tabs = about 12 grams of highly digestable protein

I'm assuming you're talking about 1 gram chlorella tabs. You have to be careful with what you say because some companies sell chlorella in 200 and 500 milligram tablets as well, which would have 1/5 and 1/2 the protein, respectively, in the same number of tabs.