Video: What Is a Raw Food Diet?

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A raw food diet consists of a variety of uncooked foods like fruits and vegetables. Learn more about the basics of a raw food diet with tips from an organic gardener in this free raw food video.

Video Transcript

Ok, today we're going to talk about a raw live food diet and first we're going to talk about what is raw food. And here on the table we have what we consider raw food. We have blueberries, dates, hemp seeds, lettuce greens, strawberries, currants, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, macadamia nuts, pine nuts, mangoes. We have sprouts, tomatoes, avocados, all these things are raw foods. But to better give you an idea of what raw food is, is I have a book here called Living in the Raw and here it says the easy way to recognize raw food is whether its still whole and still in a vegetable form. And as you can see, right here, this is raw food in the vegetable form. Now we would like to talk about raw foods looks very similar to living foods except its no longer growing. Most living food becomes raw within 24 to 48 hours after being harvested. So here we have a broccoli that we got at the store so obviously if we had picked this broccoli 20 minutes ago, this would be considered living food. And it still has that life force that thinks its still attached to the plant. But now that its been off the plant, I bought it at the store, now its considered raw food.

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What Is a Raw Food Diet?

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