Cooked Vs Raw

robertgal74 · December 2013

Hope I'm not the only one living under a rock here, but I just read this article.

http://www.skinnylimits.com/the-raw-and-the-cooked-why-all-calories-are-not-equal/

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Mr_Knight · December 2013

Humans (and their homo etc ancestors) have been cooking their food for about 2 million years. Any notion that cooking is somehow "unnatural" is not based in reality.

_John_ · December 2013

How in the hell did beans get mentioned in an article about the benefits of raw food?

dtimedwards · December 2013

I got tasked with baking a birthday cake last weekend.

Gluten Free. Okay... I can make that happen.

Vegan... hmmm... I can probably still swing that.

Raw... WTF DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? Google-->Wiki---> WTF DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?

So... I ended up baking cake, so that right there is not raw. It was gluten free (the cake part), but it wasn't vegan because I didn't have an egg substitute. Also, it wasn't raw because duh... it was baked.

The filling was vegan and raw (but no guarantee to gluten content): Super overpriced almond butter

The Cream cheese frosting was semi-vegan. The cream cheese I used was vegan (but I don't think raw), but I couldn't find any vegan butter... since the cake already had eggs, I figured why not use butter in the frosting. Not sure if their was gluten in the frosting.

In the process of trying to find recipes and ingredients, I realized I was dealing with a 3-part Venn diagram that had very little overlap. Not to mention when you look at the labels of vegan food you wonder, 'How the hell can that be good for you/ good idea?"

In summation: I stressed way too much for a mediocre cake that cost way too much, didn't quite hit the mark of somebody's random moral/dietary needs, and made me angry.

billsica · December 2013

you try too hard.
RAW VEGAN BIRTHDAY CAKE

endoftheside · December 2013

My take from this is that in some ways cooked is better...more calories and more easily digested means more available nutrients and easier on my stomach. I started eating more veggies when I eased up on thinking that they had to be raw...veggies cooked in meat broth and lightly sauteed greens are so much easier for me to eat.

Mr_Knight · December 2013

:laugh: @ Apple "cake"

POTD!

:drinker:

dtimedwards · December 2013

you try too hard.
RAW VEGAN BIRTHDAY CAKE

Thanks. I'll remember that for next year.

AlabasterVerve · December 2013

It's not cake but this looks delicious. But it has whipped cream... is there a vegan whipped cream?!

Carnivor0us · December 2013

It's not cake but this looks delicious. But it has whipped cream... is there a vegan whipped cream?!

Cool whip.

I ate a raw dinner tonight....raw buffalo.

Shellz31 · December 2013

I def don't understand the raw philosophy. I have a friend who says cooking breaks down enzymes that we need to digest food. Really? Our bodies have natural enzymes to break down food. It's in our saliva and stomach acid. We don't need the food to break itself down. It's called chewing.

There are nutrients that are lost when cooking, but so what? Tomatoes give you MORE lycopene when cooked. Also, raw diets tend to leave out really nutritious foods that aren't easy or appetizing to eat raw (like collards).

I'll stick with eating some things raw and cooking some things based on how I personally enjoy them.

TigerBite · December 2013

A raw vegan cake is basically dried fruit and nuts blended together and made into a round, kind of like a pane forte ... Almond butted and pecan butter + maple syrup as a frosting, would be good ... almonds, pecans, maple syrup ... blend until smooth and creamy ...