What is RAW FOOD?

A food is raw when it is uncooked and unprocessed.

What is a process? A process is everything done to something, which changes it in any way. I have a PhD in Technology combined with Economics. I could fill books about processes and there are quite a few books written about it. But you do not need to go that far to understand what a process is. Let us stay with food.

Let us look at a raw food, an apple, a carrot, meat.
Processes which change raw food are cutting, beating, freezing, drying, using heat, using machines.

Imagine a fresh apple. It is picked from a tree, put into a box, the box is put onto a vehicle, which brings the boxes to a warehouse. The boxes are reloaded on a truck which goes to an airport, to a ship or to the warehouse of a large company with a chain of grocery stores. The boxes are again reloaded and another truck brings the boxes with the apples to a store, were it is set into a shelf, from where we take it and bring it home. The length of the transportation matters as the raw food loses on nutrients with the time, but the food is still raw.

You come home from the grocery store with apples, carrots, tomatoes, green salad and meat. You could bite into the apple and the carrot, which is best. When you cut the apple, you still see that it is an apple. With the process of cutting, the least damage is done to a raw food. It does not lose more of what it offers as what is lost with time.

I am not going further than cutting (and sometimes beating an egg), when I prepare food. I make exceptions: I do eat dried fruit, but know that it is not raw. It is dried. I eat chocolate. Chocolate is a highly processed food. Raw are the cocoa beans. Until they become chocolate, quite a few procedures are done to it. = There is no such thing as raw chocolate. It does not exist, even when you read it somewhere!

There are stores who call themselves: Raw Food Store, but to 90% they offer processed and packaged food.

- When you read on a package, that it is Raw Something, must not mean that it is raw. –
Words are strong, yes, but a word does not make a processed food be raw.

There are people who buy fresh, raw food, bring it home and process it. It then is not living raw food anymore. It is uncooked, but processed.

One |2fd2f4316f7735a6f5742eda9c8bf122|. Making a smoothie you make quite some damage on a raw food and besides: It is not really anymore RAW FOOD. You put one or several raw foods into a juicer, all which is not fluid ends in an extra box and is thrown away. It is fibre which is so very important for digesting and the metabolism. It has no calories; it just goes through the body. But together with the fibre part of the vitamins and other nutrients go into the box with what is thrown away.
Juicing is a process. After juicing a raw food is not raw anymore, it is juiced. Juicing is a process and raw food is unprocessed.

Recently the industry has found a new market with which they make money “and jobs” and support the economy. They offer dehydrators. And there are people who buy that stuff.
|4aa823c97edcb1c1f25f84060779e03b| and this process is not easy to a food.

A human being consists to a minimum of 80% of water. When we lose some of it we die. We are then dead. I have to write it in that simple way as there are people who dehydrate food and believe that it still is raw. Okay, a human being would be dead. He does not even have to lose all it’s water to die. What would you call a food which is dehydrated?

Water is so very important. Most of raw food consists of a lot of water and water has zero calories. Take advantage of it. Eat all of a raw food. It offers you what you need to live: Important nutrients and water.

When you process your food, you are not really a raw food eater. Start eating more and more living raw food. You will be surprised how wonderful you feel and you will feel better and better.

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