Guest guest Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 No, the quantity doesn't change, but the quality of the nut does. Sprouting releases important enzymes and nutrients and removes anti-nutrients, making the nuts more digestible. Of course after you sprout them, you need to dehydrate them in an over (or dehydrator) at a very low temperature for 12-24 hours to be able to grind them into flour. Sally Fallon explains it in Nourishing Traditions if your interested. Ciao, Dawn > <<I didn't tumble on to the concept of sprouting nuts until I read NT.>> > > I've never heard of sprouting nuts... do you mean that you sprout almonds, > pecans and walnuts before you grind them for flour? Wouldn't that take many > more nuts to make flour? Or am I reading this wrong? > > thanks, > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 Excellent find - THANKS for the link! You are the research Queen! (I'm going to put this link in the link section of our home page) I am especially in agreement with this part of the article: 3.0 How important is it that the nuts I eat are raw? This is an important question to consider, as quite frankly, some raw fooders are excessively concerned with being "100% raw", i.e., with dietary purity and the quality of the food they eat. Note that nuts are a concentrated food, and the standard recommendation is to eat nuts in small or modest quantities. If you follow the preceding recommendation, and nuts are a very small part of your diet, then it is probably not critically important that some of the nuts you eat are heated or devitalized. However, it may be important when: * you are on a (nearly) 100% raw diet for healing, and/or * you are eating large amounts of nuts for a health condition, e.g. trying to regain weight lost on a raw diet. The point here is that most of us do not need to obsess on the temperature the nuts we eat were dried at, or other details. Most of us can eat "raw" nuts (even if they are not truly raw) in small quantities with little or no apparent harm. =============================== Our bodies can still get nutrients out of cooked foods - we just have to make the enzymes as opposed to the foods containing some of the live enzymes to reduce our body's effort. Our bodies still make enzymes to digest raw food as well - the idea is that we don't have to work as hard to make enzymes to digest raw foods as we do to digest cooked foods. Blessings,Lea Ann SavageSatellite Beach, FL321-773-7088 (home)321-961-9219 (cell)www.VitamixLady.comwww..com 13:35 <)))>< Sprouting Nuts I ran across this online yesterday and thought it might be interesting to some of the other members. Apparently, even if raw, some nuts can't be sprouted (or don't taste good if they are). http://www.living-foods.com/articles/nuts.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 I like to share. Re: Sprouting Nuts Excellent find - THANKS for the link! You are the research Queen! (I'm going to put this link in the link section of our home page) I am especially in agreement with this part of the article: 3.0 How important is it that the nuts I eat are raw? This is an important question to consider, as quite frankly, some raw fooders are excessively concerned with being "100% raw", i.e., with dietary purity and the quality of the food they eat. Note that nuts are a concentrated food, and the standard recommendation is to eat nuts in small or modest quantities. If you follow the preceding recommendation, and nuts are a very small part of your diet, then it is probably not critically important that some of the nuts you eat are heated or devitalized. However, it may be important when: * you are on a (nearly) 100% raw diet for healing, and/or * you are eating large amounts of nuts for a health condition, e.g. trying to regain weight lost on a raw diet. The point here is that most of us do not need to obsess on the temperature the nuts we eat were dried at, or other details. Most of us can eat "raw" nuts (even if they are not truly raw) in small quantities with little or no apparent harm. =============================== Our bodies can still get nutrients out of cooked foods - we just have to make the enzymes as opposed to the foods containing some of the live enzymes to reduce our body's effort. Our bodies still make enzymes to digest raw food as well - the idea is that we don't have to work as hard to make enzymes to digest raw foods as we do to digest cooked foods. Blessings, Lea Ann Savage Satellite Beach, FL 321-773-7088 (home) 321-961-9219 (cell) www.VitamixLady.com www..com 13:35 <)))>< Sprouting Nuts I ran across this online yesterday and thought it might be interesting to some of the other members. Apparently, even if raw, some nuts can't be sprouted (or don't taste good if they are). http://www.living-foods.com/articles/nuts.html .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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