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Login Here Signup Here Signup using FacebookI get a strange burning taste in my mouth if something has been packaged or processed in any way now that I’m raw:
Some bad tastes I have noticed recently that prior to going raw I never noticed are:
preservatives such as sodium benzoate – ouch! it Burns! got some sundried tomatoes with this in it – big mistake. a chlorine bleach taste in carrots and celery that were packed in water – ouch! Also burns!
its horrible! it also means I have to be SO careful at lunch if I go to the grocery store for quick veggies.
:-(
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I’ve had that experience – i tried some not raw salsa, and it was BAD news. tasted yuck.
I’ve heard that combining non raw and raw ingredients is a recipe for disaster. Things just don’t come out well. I’ve had this happen before i went all raw. gross.
Yes. Me to. Pre-packaged baby carrots taste like soap.
I was WONDERING why my prepacked organic baby carrots tasted strange. are they coated in something? hmm… i should check. YIPES!
I’ve had this happen too!!! I got sundried tomatos with sulfur as a preservative because I couldn’t find any without, and it tasted bad and made me feel nauseated. But I soaked them in some filtered water for a while and made some tomato dressing in the blender, and they tasted okay.
HMmmmm…one of my hesitations going raw is just not enjoying the taste of things..like carrots and apples, and other fruits and veggies . Maybe they don’t taste good to me because of the way the are handled,processed,packaged, ect.
I have found I don’t even enjoy getting raw takeaway anymore. I recently got raw mock sushi at Bonobo’s here in NYC and felt like crap for the rest of the day. At this point, I only feel really good on fresh fruits, veg, and nuts/seeds (again, in moderation) or raw foods that I have prepared. My body reacts to other prepared foods (even if raw) immediately.
YES, I have experienced this too. After eating organic fruits and veggies, anytime I eat non-organic, they taste like crap!! I can always tell if something is organic or not now.
Oh my gosh…I eat some organic fruits, but mainly conventional. Well, I’ve been 100% for 9 days, and the past 3 or 4 days, everytime I eat a conventional avocado, the stem area tastes SICK! Like pure poison. So, now I’m not eating that part, lol. I guess the chemicals leak into the avo the most from the stem, makes sense. Ugh, sucks though. At least I know now, though!
well now I know why I’ve been buying real carrots lately rather than baby carrots! I didn’t even realize I was doing it, but I hadn’t had a real carrot since I was a kid. theyre so much better
Mon46 – A lot of raw restaurants (and even raw cookbooks) use non-raw ingredients such as Nama Shoyu, miso, nutritional yeast, etc. Whenever I have marinated mushrooms at Cafe Gratitude I second guess it now, since the recipe in their cookbook calls for Nama, I assume they serve it in the restaurant :(
I also have only been getting the organic whole carrots lately too!! I used to buy already shredded carrots to add to salads, but the organic whole ones are sooo much better I just shred them myself now with a cheese grater.
I used to only buy organic occasionally since it is more expensive, but now if it isn’t organic I won’t even bother. I usually prefer the little sugar plum tomatoes or roma tomatoes, but lately TJ’s hasn’t had the organic roma’s anymore so I have had to switch to a different kind just to get organic.
Yeah – i’m with ya there, renoir. now i’m committed to buying only organic. i think the pesticides have been making me sick (digestive stuff) and this is the last straw. organic – or i won’t even bother.