this has probably been discussed bef

[Guest guest]

& gt; & gt;<br> & gt; & gt;<br>cashews...raw or not?

i've heard that they must be heated to remove them

from the shell. if so, why do they appear in the

recipes of so many raw food cookbooks, i.e.

juliano's?<br>thank you for your

help,<br>namaste,<br>copeland<br> & gt; & gt;<br> & gt; & gt;<br><br>You're right, all

cashews have to be heated in order to

remove the cashwws from the shell without having contact

with the poisonous inner coating. Actually, other nuts

and seeds are also regularly heated. They are also

often immersed in substances, in order to give them a

certain coloring, that most raw foodists would find

objectionable. Just because a nut or seed is organic does not

mean that it is unheated. The only way you can know

absolutely for sure if a particular nut or seed is heated is

by calling the nut or seed farmer. Employees of

health food stores and food distributers often give out

wrong information about this sort of thing. If you want

the truth, call or email the farmer

directly.<br><br>Many so-called 'raw' recipe books actually use many

ingredients that are heated. When i looked at Juliano's book

i noticed around 20 different ingredients he used

that have been heated, i aassume he uses those same

heated ingredients at his supposedly 'raw' restaurant. I

think that, in most cases, these authors are not even

aware that certain foods have been heated. However, i

was quite surprised to see that Juliano thought that

Miso was raw, i thoght most raw foodists were aware

that all types of miso have been cooked. <br>You'll

probably get the strictest raw, unheated recipes in books

by authors like Ann Wigmore or Viktoras Kulvinskas,

but some of their books with recipes are out of

print.

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thank you for confirming my thoughts. i have some

of the tried-and-true cookbooks, as well, and use

them primarily. i'll have to contact my local fresh

foods providers/farmers to find out if my supply of

nuts and seeds are raw and untainted.<br><br>thanks

again,<br>copeland