Not all olives, there are a few raw stores that sell truly raw sun cured olives. Anything in a can is most likely cooked.

The word "crushed" when used with olives does not mean the physical pressing down of the product. It actually indicates a slit being cut along the length of the olive which enables the olive to marinate and to mature. These are the preferred olives used by people who add various spices and flavours to their olives the crushing of the olive allows the olive to draw the flavour in. Check out Delphic's Olives range examples available on this website.

The only unrefined sugar available to the average consumer seems to be Sucanat ™, an evaporated sugar cane syrup. Raw beet sugar is reputed to be unsavory. It may be possible in some markets to get other raw sugars. In Hawaii, pineapple sugar may sometimes be found.

Raw honey is honey that has not been over-heated or over-strained. Excess heating, such as used to produce liquid honey, destroys the natural enzymes that the bees have added, including the substance producing hydrogen peroxide that gives honey part of its antibacterial activity. The usage of honey as a medicine is referred to in the most ancient written records. Honey was prescribed by the physicians of many ancient races of people for a wide variety of ailments.

Raw food is food which has never been heated nor treated with chemicals so it retains the enzymes and nutrients of its natural state. As soon as a food is cooked or has added chemicals, the vitamins, nutrients, enzymes, and other healthy compounds start to change or become destroyed and the food no longer has the life and health-giving properties it should.

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No, olives that have been processed for retail sale have been pickled and the antioxidant effect is dramatically reduced as a result. You would need to consume at least 4-6 ounces of olive oil a day to obtain the same antioxidant effect as one tablet of OLIVENOL™.

It is possible to grow olives in most regions of California. Olives are grown anywhere where the temperatures does not frequently fall below 20 degrees F any time during the winter. There are very large olive growing regions in the Central Valley as well as the North Sacramento Valley.

No, for oil the best maturity stage for ripe fruit flavor and good keeping quality is as the fruit is turning from yellow/green to purple on the outside skin and before the pulp turns black. Table olives are picked green and firm. But olives are also picked at all the other stages of ripeness depending on your desired style of oil.

I consider myself a 75% Raw Foodist. There are certain things that are currently in my diet that constitute cooked or processed. Although my food intake changes day to day, I allow cooked or processed fruits, vegetables, nuts and other variations into my body, on a minimal basis. For example, I might have roasted cashews on my salad if I go out to a restaurant to eat. I use a commercially-bought dressing on my salads at home.

If it says on the bottle or jar, it may be. Call the company and ask. Labels may be misleading most times.

The presence of bacteria in raw food often worries pet owners and vets. They assume these bacteria will make pets sick. However, dogs, being scavengers, have evolved to eat and thrive on bacteria laden food, requiring them for immune system maturity. Wild dogs eat the gut contents of their prey, and the feces of many different animals. They eat soil, contaminated meat, buried bones, infected meat and so on. These are all a source of microbes and any toxins they might produce.

In a nutshell, raw foodists eat: fresh, raw fruits and vegetables as well as seeds, nuts and some soaked or sprouted grains. There are unlimited recipes and dishes which are made from these ingredients, including: pates, loafs, "noodles", cakes, cookies, crackers, soups, salads and marinades. Raw Foodists do not have to eat only salads! Not usually. Some raw foodists in a transition period will choose to eat things like mahi tuna or steak tartar, but after awhile they usually stop.

No. You will see benefits from just from being more raw than you are now. Say you eat 90% cooked food and only 10% raw right now in each meal. (By weight, not by volume.) If you increase the raw so you are eating 50% raw and 50% cooked in each meal, you would see big benefits! However, the cooked food you are eating shouldn’t be candy bars, soda, chocolate, fried chicken, etc. Try to cut out the especially unhealthy cooked foods.

People do usually lose all their excess weight when they eaten unprocessed, high enzyme raw food diet These foods provide you with nutrition without stressing your digestive system. If it the food is organic as well, your body gets high quality nourishment to keep it running smoothly and no toxins that it couldn't break down and would have to find a place to stash.