Raw Food Diet’s principles
The Raw Food Diet is a diet that foresees the consumption of raw foods or cooked at no more than 40° and 46°. It gives room to the consumption of raw vegetables, fruit, seeds (chia, pumpkin, sunflower, hemp, sesame) and oil-rich dried fruit (walnuts, nuts, almonds and pine nuts, etc.). Who follows this type of diet try to avoid those foods cooked above the 45° believing that cooking give rise to negative substance for the organism and remove all their nutritional properties.
The Raw Food Diet thinks that the enzymes are the most important substances that the food gives to the organism. These are completely lost once cooked; instead they are necessary to maintain the right functions of the organism, for the digestion and the regeneration of the tissues. Eating raw food allows to have the right contribution of vitamins and pure minerals.
The benefits of the Raw Food Diet
Eating raw foods, non-altered by the cooking and avoiding the industrial and refined foods help to detox the organism. Besides this, it allows both to not introduce toxins and remove the existing ones, reinforce the immune system, the digestive system and the intestinal flora. Eating a lot of raw fruit and vegetables give useful elements to the organism without making it heavier and remove the problem of the excessive calorie count. Thus, keeping in shape and healthy with raw food!
The different types of Raw Food Diets
The Raw Food Diet can be applied to different diets: omnivorous, vegetarian and vegan, even if this last one is widely spread. In the omnivorous diet it is possible to eat also raw meat and fish or marinated, shellfish and uncooked dairy products, non-refined eggs, kefir, honey and other fermented food. In the vegetarian version, besides fruit and vegetable, a Raw Foodie can eat seeds and oil-rich fruit, but also buds, cereals, dairy products and egg. Finally the vegan version foresees 100% vegetal products.
The ingredients of the Raw Food Diet
They are:
• Biological and seasonal fruit and vegetables
• Dried biological fruit
• Dates of the copper variety
• Honey and vegetal syrups (agaves, maple, etc.) to substitute sugar
Who follows the Raw Food Diet try to avoid not only the cooked food, but also the industrial ones that have aromas, food colouring and preservatives; moreover they are subjected to treatments and refining. The most spread Raw Food Diet foresees the 100% of vegetal food, the 80% of it has to be raw and gluten free. Moreover industrial food and fruit have to be eaten hours after the meals.
The tools of the Raw Food Diet
No pots, oven and stove. The main tools of the Raw Food Diet, like the ingredients, are pretty different compared with the traditional ones. Since that it doesn’t foresees the cooking, the stoves are useless. It is rather essential:
– Drier to dry fruit and vegetables for a long time
– Mixer/grinder to grind seeds and oil-rich dried fruit
– Blender for healthy smoothies
– Puller and centrifuge
– Vegetables cutter, given that the greatest amount of the meal are made of fresh fruit and vegetables.
