UNpresoaked nuts/seeds: Just how indegestible are they?

[Guest guest]

Hi.

 

My transistion to crudivorism is going reasonably smoothly, but I have yet

to embrace the notion that I must presoak seeds and nuts before eating them.

Even though I read more and more that fats should be eaten sparingly, I

continue to depend on them at every meal for their powers of satiation.

However, I never soak them. I have certainly tried soaked nuts, but guess

what? They are, well, horrible. I can't think of a better way to transform

a nice almond into something terrible than by soaking it overnight. They

become watery and soft and the flavor changes considerably. Not tasty! For

the record, I eat only raw nuts and seeds, with almonds, brazil nuts,

cashews, pistachios and filberts seeing the heaviest rotation. I sometimes

in coconuts as well. As for seeds, I guess I eat mainly pepitas and

sunnies.

 

I eat as many as 150g fat/day with all these nuts, yet I am rail thin.

Hence, I wonder if the natural enzyme inhibitors within these fine nuts is

rendering them much less caloric than I imagine. What has been your

experience?

 

Thanks for reading!

 

Sleigh

[Guest guest]

I looked up crudivorism but it's not a word. I have to assume you're

using it as metaphor for raw foodism. I don't soak nuts, I just eat

them as they are. I figure that's the best way to go, I hope I live

through it. I don't eat a lot of fats, a couple avocados a day, a

couple handful of nuts. Nice rotation of nuts you have there, pretty

much mine, raw macadamias are good too. I'm pretty thin and getting

back to real thin by staying raw. I remember being about 145 at

5'10 " a while back when I was consecutively raw for a while. I don't

know about " the natural enzyme inhibitors within these fine nuts

rendering them much less caloric than I imagine. " I think nuts run

through us pretty easily though, they don't seem to get much

digested. This is why I don't think they're the best food choice,

but I have to have something to munch on to get me through my

aggravation at being raw. Thanks for writing.

 

Rich

 

rawfood , " The Sleighteem " <sleighteem@m...>

wrote:

>

> Hi.

>

> My transistion to crudivorism is going reasonably smoothly, but I

have yet

> to embrace the notion that I must presoak seeds and nuts before

eating them.

> Even though I read more and more that fats should be eaten

sparingly, I

> continue to depend on them at every meal for their powers of

satiation.

> However, I never soak them. I have certainly tried soaked nuts,

but guess

> what? They are, well, horrible. I can't think of a better way to

transform

> a nice almond into something terrible than by soaking it

overnight. They

> become watery and soft and the flavor changes considerably. Not

tasty! For

> the record, I eat only raw nuts and seeds, with almonds, brazil

nuts,

> cashews, pistachios and filberts seeing the heaviest rotation. I

sometimes

> in coconuts as well. As for seeds, I guess I eat mainly pepitas

and

> sunnies.

>

> I eat as many as 150g fat/day with all these nuts, yet I am rail

thin.

> Hence, I wonder if the natural enzyme inhibitors within these fine

nuts is

> rendering them much less caloric than I imagine. What has been

your

> experience?

>

> Thanks for reading!

>

> Sleigh

[Guest guest]

Rich, Sleigh and friends,

I'm still a raw food newbie but having a lot of fun. Here are some thoughts on

nuts and digestion: I think soaking is best for digestion and breaking down of

the particles in the intestines...and I like to mix my soaked or sprouted nuts

and seeds in with other recipes to make both the other foods and the nuts/seeds

taste better. Mixing in the food processor in these recipes blends the nuts so

they are more digestible than just the chunks that our teeth can grind even with

great chew effort. I think otherwise the nut chunks just go through the body not

giving nutrition, or can get caught in hidden in the intestines too long and

cause possible fermentation. Does that make sense?

 

Diana of Dewberry Hill

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I'm just a newbie too, regardless of my over a decade long attempt at

this. And I'm having a lot of fun along with a lot of detox pain.

 

Rich

 

rawfood , Diana of Dewberry Hill

<cozad76078> wrote:

> Rich, Sleigh and friends,

> I'm still a raw food newbie but having a lot of fun.