Guest guest Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 Everywhere you can see " raw " cashews, in grocery stores, health food stores, etc. It's like much of " raw " nut butter, which can be heated way beyond viability in the grinding process - these cashews have just not been additionally roasted, but heated considerably to de-shell them. If a nut is certified raw, then that's different I suppose. Does this mean the cashew will sprout? I don't think David Wolfe has the only supply of them, no; I've seen several sources for them. While we can't witness what they do to the nut wherever they are processed, the " truly-raw " ones definitely taste different from your run-of-the-mill raw cashew. -K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 Kathy I've seen raw cashews offered on websites that claim they are " really " raw, and that many you find in health food stores,etc, may not be really raw at all due to the processes you described. But it is really hard to tell. As for nut butters - it seems to me that if they are in a jar - they had to be processed to some degree -- wouldn't they? And wouldn't that include heating? I make my own nut butters now ... grind the nuts through my green star, or pulverize them with the vitamix, then add a smidgen of oil to the ground nuts, and mix it up. The butter has a bit of a different texture than store bought, but tastes fine. I've made nutbutter using the vitamix alone, but the time it takes to turn the nuts into butter also causes them to heat up a LOT, so that is why I switched to the 2-step process of grinding and adding oil. cheers terry rawfood , " Kathy Raine " <kraine@u...> wrote: > Everywhere you can see " raw " cashews, in grocery stores, health food stores, > etc. It's like much of " raw " nut butter, which can be heated way beyond > viability in the grinding process - these cashews have just not been > additionally roasted, but heated considerably to de-shell them. If a nut is > certified raw, then that's different I suppose. Does this mean the cashew > will sprout? I don't think David Wolfe has the only supply of them, no; > I've seen several sources for them. While we can't witness what they do to > the nut wherever they are processed, the " truly-raw " ones definitely taste > different from your run-of-the-mill raw cashew. > -K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 You're so right Kathy. Kathy Raine <kraine wrote: Everywhere you can see " raw " cashews, in grocery stores, health food stores, etc. It's like much of " raw " nut butter, which can be heated way beyond viability in the grinding process - these cashews have just not been additionally roasted, but heated considerably to de-shell them. If a nut is certified raw, then that's different I suppose. Does this mean the cashew will sprout? I don't think David Wolfe has the only supply of them, no; I've seen several sources for them. While we can't witness what they do to the nut wherever they are processed, the " truly-raw " ones definitely taste different from your run-of-the-mill raw cashew. -K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 actually most any shelled nut falls into this they typically use heat or steam to unshell them On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:26:07PM -0800, E. Rice-Fells wrote: > > You're so right Kathy. > > > > Kathy Raine <kraine wrote: > Everywhere you can see " raw " cashews, in grocery stores, health food stores, > etc. It's like much of " raw " nut butter, which can be heated way beyond > viability in the grinding process - these cashews have just not been > additionally roasted, but heated considerably to de-shell them. If a nut is > certified raw, then that's different I suppose. Does this mean the cashew > will sprout? I don't think David Wolfe has the only supply of them, no; > I've seen several sources for them. While we can't witness what they do to > the nut wherever they are processed, the " truly-raw " ones definitely taste > different from your run-of-the-mill raw cashew. > -K > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 18, 2004 Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 try to sprout them if they sprout they are really raw but if they dont' I dont' know if you can say they are not raw. I mean, from what I know really raw almonds won't always sprout. On Dec 17, 2004, at 11:52 AM, terry wrote: > > > > Kathy > I've seen raw cashews offered on websites that claim they > are " really " raw, and that many you find in health food stores,etc, > may not be really raw at all due to the processes you described. > But it is really hard to tell. > > As for nut butters - it seems to me that if they are in a jar - they > had to be processed to some degree -- wouldn't they? And wouldn't > that include heating? > > I make my own nut butters now ... grind the nuts through my green > star, or pulverize them with the vitamix, then add a smidgen of oil > to the ground nuts, and mix it up. The butter has a bit of a > different texture than store bought, but tastes fine. I've made > nutbutter using the vitamix alone, but the time it takes to turn the > nuts into butter also causes them to heat up a LOT, so that is why I > switched to the 2-step process of grinding and adding oil. > cheers > terry > > rawfood , " Kathy Raine " <kraine@u...> wrote: >> Everywhere you can see " raw " cashews, in grocery stores, health > food stores, >> etc. It's like much of " raw " nut butter, which can be heated way > beyond >> viability in the grinding process - these cashews have just not > been >> additionally roasted, but heated considerably to de-shell them. > If a nut is >> certified raw, then that's different I suppose. Does this mean > the cashew >> will sprout? I don't think David Wolfe has the only supply of > them, no; >> I've seen several sources for them. While we can't witness what > they do to >> the nut wherever they are processed, the " truly-raw " ones > definitely taste >> different from your run-of-the-mill raw cashew. >> -K > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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