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Benefits of the Raw Vegan Diet
Vegan raw food is fabulous for the body’s health because of its living enzymes. Enzymes deliver nutrients to the body, carry out toxins, purify the blood, aid digestion, enhance the endocrine system, balance cholesterol, fuel the brain and strengthen the immune system. In short a raw vegan diet purifies the body by detoxifying it. This prevents degenerative and chronic disease.
Enzymes are destroyed at 115 degrees of heat. If water is too hot to the touch, it is too hot for enzymes, since they have zero tolerance for heat. Therefore cooked, heated and processed foods do not contain enzymes. Heat also depletes food of vitamins and minerals.
Vegans who adopt a raw vegan diet can do so gradually. Some people choose to eat raw vegan foods until dinner time and then eat one cooked meal a day. Some choose to do raw vegan meals 3-4 times per week. The goal is to lessen the number of cooked meals and the use of processed foods.
Sample Recipes
Raw Lettuce Wraps
8 large leaves of romaine lettuce
3 tomatoes, diced
2 ripe avocados
1 small yellow pepper diced
1 ear raw organic corn
3 cloves fresh garlic, minced
2 tablespoon yellow onion, diced
2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
Mash the ripe avocados. Add all ingredients (except for lettuce leaves) including kernels stripped from raw ear of corn and mix in a bowl. Spread two or three spoonfuls of this mixture onto romaine lettuce leaves and wrap.
Note: We also have a non-raw variation: Lettuce Wraps with Peanut Sauce.
Strawberry Cream
2 cups fresh strawberries
1/2 cup soaked almonds
1 large banana
Blend soaked almonds together with strawberries and banana until creamy. This recipe does not require water.
Our Vegan Recipes section contains other raw vegan recipes in addition to the raw dairy-free Strawberry Cream and Raw Lettuce Wraps recipes seen here.
Look below for more information on the vegan raw food diet.
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Recommended Resources for a Raw Vegan Diet
For more vegan raw food recipes and information, we recommend following sites and books.
Raw Vegan Websites
Learn Raw Food - Jennifer Cornbleet's site
Ani's Raw Food Kitchen
Raw Family - The Boutenko family's site
Vegan Raw Food Information and Recipe Books
Raw Family book by Victoria, Igor, Sergei and Valya Boutenko
Raw Food Made Easy by Jennifer Cornbleet
Ani's Raw Food Kitchen: Easy, Delectable Living Foods Recipes by Ani Phyo
Ani's Raw Food Desserts by Ani Phyo
Green for Life by Victoria Boutenko
12 Steps to Raw Foods by Victoria Boutenko
The Raw Transformation by Wendy Rudell, David Wolfe
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