Is it possible to live without cooked food?
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I think so, if you had a choice of the food you ate with an eye to digestibility and care with your teeth.
Unripe apple juice works to marinate/soften foods too, so you wouldn't need to import limes.
If you crack and soak grains, they'll ferment and soften too. Peas if soaked will sprout. Fish often doesn't need to be cooked to be edible, and meat can be pounded to break down the fibres…..loss of energy to gain protein there though.
Salads are a classic no cook too
Not everything works to give full benefit however. We're very fortunate and have no famine situation and loads of choice.
M
Unripe apple juice works to marinate/soften foods too, so you wouldn't need to import limes.
If you crack and soak grains, they'll ferment and soften too. Peas if soaked will sprout. Fish often doesn't need to be cooked to be edible, and meat can be pounded to break down the fibres…..loss of energy to gain protein there though.
Salads are a classic no cook too
Not everything works to give full benefit however. We're very fortunate and have no famine situation and loads of choice.
M
Yes. For some foods its preferable not to cook them as cooking destroys nutrients. In others, cooking renders them safe(r) to eat - celandine and pork spring to mind. In yet more it renders food palatable. Could you do it? Yes. Would I want to? No
There's quite a strong movement for uncooked foods, lots of stuff on the web about raw food diets and as long as it's well executed many people live quite healthily on it. There's a few people around here that have been Raw food only for years and they're doing fine.
These are the first ones to come up on google
http://www.rawfoodlife.com
http://www.thebestofrawfood.com
http://www.living-foods.com
These are the first ones to come up on google
http://www.rawfoodlife.com
http://www.thebestofrawfood.com
http://www.living-foods.com
Raw food diet?.......c'mon, isnt that just TRYING to be awkward
Talk about first world problems
But when someone comes round you just plop the veg & fruit basket in front of them. What could be easier. No awkward preparing of food at all.
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But when someone comes round you just plop the veg & fruit basket in front of them. What could be easier. No awkward preparing of food at all.
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Can I hand them a fork and point to the field?
Well given that our species has been around longer than cooked food has, I think the presumption has to be yes, you certainly can live without cooked food.
But when someone comes round you just plop the veg & fruit basket in front of them. What could be easier. No awkward preparing of food at all.
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Well said GB.
I don't entertain vegetarians at home, lets be honest, most are a tin short of a four pack. One of my sister in laws is a vegetarian so when she comes to ours I'll only cook macaroni cheese, cauliflower cheese, jacket spud with beans et al...she eats it while her poor husband gets stuck into the meat dishes on offer.
Raw food for me is the likes of a cheese sandwich broadly speaking.
I don't want to. Cooking many things produces Maillard reactions to give the food a more appetising appearance and taste.
Cooked/hot foods have many more interesting smells as well. I just can't get excited about a cold breakfast any more.
I guess I'd do all that but I have the luxury of choice.
Cooked/hot foods have many more interesting smells as well. I just can't get excited about a cold breakfast any more.
I guess I'd do all that but I have the luxury of choice.
Though raw fruit & veg is nice and healthy it takes a lot of energy for your body to process it, meaning you have to eat more and take longer doing it. Prof Alice Roberts did a good program on the difference of raw & cooked food a while back.
There's also the school.of thought that this increased calorie intake helped fuel the evolution of our brains as it needs a huge amount of calories to fuel it.
I like raw food and eat a lot of it, but it makes it a lot easier on the body to process it externally. That doesn't mean starting a fire though. Using acid like citrus on fish or meat works and some nomadic tribes as well as the famous steak tartar had a specially built saddle that raw meat was slipped into and the action of the pounding saddle and the chemicals in the horse sweat changed/cooked the meat. Raw veg, fruit, fish & shell fish are all lovely though. We just don't seem to trust them much yet in this country.
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There's also the school.of thought that this increased calorie intake helped fuel the evolution of our brains as it needs a huge amount of calories to fuel it.
I like raw food and eat a lot of it, but it makes it a lot easier on the body to process it externally. That doesn't mean starting a fire though. Using acid like citrus on fish or meat works and some nomadic tribes as well as the famous steak tartar had a specially built saddle that raw meat was slipped into and the action of the pounding saddle and the chemicals in the horse sweat changed/cooked the meat. Raw veg, fruit, fish & shell fish are all lovely though. We just don't seem to trust them much yet in this country.
Sent via smoke-signal from a woodland in Scotland.
Indeed, what a really sloppy bit of reporting that was! Talk about no attempt to interpret or reassure
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