Dried Fruit? - Thanks Bob & Nora and a ? for Nora

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Audrey Walker Sunday, July 17, 2005 9:05 PM Re:

[Rawschool] Dried Fruit?-Thanks Bob & Nora and a ? for Nora

 

Thanks Bob & Nora,

 

I think I may just try some dried apples in moderation

and see how my body responds, it lets me know very

quickly now when it doesn't like something. :-) I'm

still balancing making improvements and staying

satisfied. I'm pretty fulfilled with fresher, simpler

foods now but sometimes I want a little something

different.

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Hi Audrey and all,

 

There are no instances of which I am aware when eating a dehydrated food is

" good " for you. The top 2 nutrients we need are oxygen and water -- in fact,

we need many, many times more of these two nutrients than we do all other

nutrients combined. And these are precisely the nutrients we remove by

dehydrating. But the problem goes beyond that.

 

ALL water-borne nutrients require water to be " borne, " that is, to move

freely and to remain fully bioavailable. When you remove the water, all

these nutrients are stranded on " dry land, " they have nowhere to go.

 

Remember boiling water and watching that white ring form in the pot? That

ring consisted largely of minerals that left solution. As the water supply

in the pot disappeared, its capacity to hold minerals and other materials in

solution diminished, roughly in equal proportion.

 

So while I do occasionally eat a few dehydrated tomatoes or use some in a

recipe, at no time to I delude myself into thinking this is an optimal food

for me. Whole foods remain the best choice, far and away.

 

Now I'd like to address this whole topic from a different perspective....

 

QUESTION: What motivates you to seek these dehydrated foods? (I haven't read

the thread, so you may already have mentioned this.)

 

If your motivation is truly that you just love the taste and nothing else,

then great. But if you seek to " spice things up " or otherwise to mask or

enhance the natural tastes, textures, etc. of the whole foods, then I

strongly suggest that you stay the course with the whole foods and allow

your system to fully relearn to enjoy them.

 

The moment you put anything concentrated into your mouth, and particularly

onto your tongue, you overwhelm your sensory capacities for taste, smell,

and touch, at least to some degree, and your capacity to become fully aware

of the true tastes, composition, textures, etc. of the whole foods is

diminished. This is what we have all done to ourselves for years, decades in

most cases, by eating salt, spices, herbs, chocolate, refined sugar, etc.

These all mask the true taste of the foods themselves. Why do the same thing

with RF?

 

Just thoughts,

Elchanan

 

PS If you're going camping, then of course dehydrated RF is a FAR, FAR

better choice than cooked anything. E

 

 

 

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I agree! About the only time of year I find myself depending on dehydrated

foods at all is when we go for our annual two week camping trip every September;

we go to the upper peninsula of Michigan, on Lake Superior, and keeping fruit

from spoiliing is a problem. So I depend on apples, whatever citrus is

available, and every three or four days lay in a supply of bananas. Celery is

about the only green that keeps well under our circumstances (lettuces just

don't seem to appreciate the cooler life...), and for the days we spend hiking,

I use dehydrated bananas, pineapple, cherries, etc. (with some celery along for

the ride, just to help the teeth out after eating the dried fruit). Dates travel

very well...

 

One bonus of being up there in early autumn is finding wide swatches of ripe

wild blueberries....talk about heaven!

 

Peace, Valerie

 

" INFO @ Vibrant Life " <VLinfo wrote:

PS If you're going camping, then of course dehydrated RF is a FAR, FAR

better choice than cooked anything.