What can you not eat on the raw food diet?
I’m considering starting it soon, and I’m wondering what some of the non obvious restricted foods are. I don’t know a lot about this. Of course you can’t have meat or cook anything, but what are some other things you can’t eat. Can you have bread or milk? Peanut butter? Or is it strictly fruit and veggies?
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y the hell would u wanna do that u would be starving n bread is cooked btw i think u wuld just get really sick n feel like fainting all the time i did something like that n almost passed out a few times n u would walk around like a zombie all day cuz u have no energy….. after about 4 months i got sick of it n started eating regular again n was finally happy n energetic n not passing out
bread is cooked so I’m assuming you couldn’t have that..
You can have raw milk on a vegetarian diet. You can have SPROUTED grain breads, you can’t have peanut butter. A raw food diet consists mainly of fruits,vegetables,nuts,seeds. If your not raw vegan, you will also eat bee pollen, honey, and some raw milk.
Actually – there are rawists who do eat meat and eggs – and they do not cook them. I am not recommending it – just saying that is what some people choose to do.
Generally rawists will not eat food that has been heated above 115 degrees, which is the point where the enzymes are broken down. Most of the raw food/whole food movement is getting enzymes from living food.
So normal bread you get in the store is out – but there are bread like foods that rawists make to use instead of bread. Generally they make a dough but instead of baking it – they put it in a dehydrator to finish "cooking" it. Here is a recipe for Italian Bread that is raw-food-compliant: http://rawfoodsdiet.wetpaint.com/page/Italian+Bread+Recipe
Milk from the grocery store is out as it has been pasteurized. Raw milk would be acceptable – if you can find it – it is not legal in many all states.
Peanut Butter is out because the peanuts are roasted – however you can probably find fresh-ground raw almond butter at the health food store.
On cooked diets, the vegans are usually healthier than the vegetarians, and the vegetarians are usually healthier than the omnivores.
However on raw diets, the omnivores and vegetarians are healthier than the vegans. I wish it wasn’t so, but it is. 50% of raw vegans develop health problems, which go away when they add raw eggs or dairy OR cooked grains and legumes. 50% of raw vegans are healthy and happy but there are an awful lot of horror stories from the rest. I unfortunately am in the 50% who is not healthy on raw vegan. But now I’m stuck – I’m vegan for ethical reasons, but my body is no longer adapted to cooked food so cooked things make me really ill. So I can never go back to cooked vegan. Which means I’m stuck on raw vegan and feel lousy!
So in answer to your question, yes you can eat raw unpasteurised milk and raw eggs on a raw food diet. Most raw foodists seem to be vegan but there are plenty of vegetarians and omnivores on a raw diet.
You can’t buy bread or milk or peanut butter. But you can make your own peanut butter out of raw peanuts (bought in shells), for which you need a juicer with a homogenising attachment such as the Champion or the Greenstar. You can also make all other kinds of nut and seed butters which are healthier for you than peanut. You can go to a farm and buy raw unpasteurised milk. Goat is far healthier than cows. You can’t make yogurt because that needs to be heated but you can buy some kefir grains which are a culture. You add them to milk and they ferment it in 24 hours, to make something similar to yogurt, only it’s liquid, and far better for you. Kefir can cure yeast infections, yogurt can only ease them a bit. If you leave kefir in for days then the milk will go thick similar to cottage cheese.
You can make bread in a dehydrator, the excalibur is best. You have to soak the grains, then drain, then water them twice a day until they sprout. Then grind them up. Add other ingredients (either just water or add flavourings/oils). Then mould into a loaf shape, and place in the dehydrator (or outside under the sun if you live somewhere really hot), until dry.
Raw vegans eat fruit, veg, nuts, seeds, sprouted beans/lentils/chickpeas, sprouted quinoa/millet/oats, seaweed, coconut, olive oil, flax oil, herbs, spices, cacao powder (raw cocoa powder), carob powder.
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You can’t have bread, but some raw foodists dehydrate a mix of flaxseeds and other stuff to make crackers, which they top with veggies to make a sandwich.
You can’t have commercial peanut butter, but you can make your own! Artisana makes lots of nut butters, like coconut, cashew, pecan, almond etc.
It’s not just fruits and veggies, you can also have nuts, seeds, etc.
I suggest you read up on some raw vegan athletes like Tonya Kay (kayosmarket.com and tonyakay.com), Brendan Brazier (brendanbrazier.com) etc.
Here are some of their interviews about protein:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1371618/vegetarian_athletes_share_top_5_sources.html?cat=5