Is it RAW?

Hydrohawk

I am new (thank you) and live in a place which is very difficult to get health foods. I am wondering if somethings are RAW, even though it doesn’t say it on the packaging…such as a bag of arrowhead mills organic chick peas, Lundberg Wehani Whole grain brown rice, Chatfield’s Cocoa powder…. amoung other things Ive seen in the small healthfood store I have available. There are no bulkfoods either (boo hoo)... ANY RULES OF THUMB???

RawNutrition.ca

Hi Hydrohawk,
Beans and grains are generally raw (otherwise they would be marked roasted ie: Kasha is roasted buckwheat). You can test your grains and beans by seeing if they sprout. Steamed or heat treated grains and beans will never sprout. Chatfields Cocoa is roasted. Most powdered cocoa on the market is roasted. If its raw it’ll say so on package. Look for Raw Cacao nibs. Its chunky and you can reduce it to powder in a small grinder.

RawNutrition.ca

Extra virgin cold pressed Hempseed oil is raw.

Hydrohawk

I’m with ya, Topcat; There other surprising things on that list, such as Agave nector, seaweed and wild rice. I dont feel so bad about the cocoa I bought now, but I will try to get some ‘raw’, it must be closer than something that doesn’t SAY raw,... or IS it???
Thanks for everyone’s input, it’s all clear as mud! That purely Raw website is great, THANKS RENOIR!

Hydrohawk

MY RICE SPROUTED!!!! YIPPEEEEE!!! Well, I took the advice of RawNutrition of trying to sprout the rice and it worked!!! NOW, what to do with it

mandelicious

you have to decide how much it matters if your small condiments and flavoring agents are truly 100% raw. if it’s that important to you, you may not want substitutes, you may prefer to just function without those things.

raw honey is a great sweetener, although some don’t use it because of the non-veganness of it (i’m beegan, myself).