Get the Most out of Your Nuts
By Carolin
Welcome back!
Nuts are healthy!
I would prefer them to almost any snack but if you but if your favorite is toasted, artificially flavored nuts you’re in trouble.
In this article I’m going to show you how the nutritional value changes depending on how you eat your nuts.
Raw or roasted
If you look at the nutritional value between a dry roasted nut and a raw nut there is not a lot of difference. If the nut is roasted the fat increases both the good and the bad fat.
If the nut is oil roasted the fat increases a lot maybe 50%. The roasting process also causes a loss in vitamins.
To summarize this part you don’t want to eat oil roasted nuts. But, as I see it, the biggest problem with roasted nut is that they in most cases are salted and sometimes flavored with other things you don’t want in your body. Nuts are great but salt and artificial flavorings are NOT good.
So the most important thing to focus on unsalted, unflavored nuts.
Why eat RAW nuts?
As with all foods you kill the enzymes by heating them. There many opinions about what enzymes do in our bodies. But after reading several books and following a raw food diet, for me the reason is that:
The enzymes make your digestion a lot easier. This will gives you a lot of extra energy. Think of the afternoon dip or loss of energy (read sugar craving) that you experience after a meal. You feel the difference!
So you have a great tasting type of food in front of you that keeps for ages. Why not eat them raw?
Why soak you nuts?
If you really want to feel the power of enzymes you need to activate them. To do this the raw seed, bean or nut needs to be soaked and sprouted. The food then turns from just raw to living.
Now I’m going to quote Ann Wigmore in her The Sprouting Book.
“When you eat a sprout you are eating a tiny, easy-to-digest plant that is at its peak of nutritional value. The seed releases all of its stored nutrients in a burst of vitality as it attempts to become a full-sized plant.”
You don’t sprout a nut but you soak them for about 12 hours.
Soaking your nuts may feel too ambitious but if you want to get the most out of your nuts soaking is the way to go.
Why not try it?
Raw food chef Elaina Love explains more about soaked nuts this video.
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Hi. The information is very precise. Great work!
I’m going to get a book on the topic because it left me thinking. Thanks.