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• queenfluff, are you talking about those deodorant stones?

  in Favorite toiletries (packaged or homemade) Comment by Avo Cado
• Nutritional yeast is high in the excitatory amino acid glutamic acid. A ‘yeast extract’ could conceivably be (and in this context almost certainly is) just glutamic acid. Here’s a label profile for a whole nutritional yeast powder (not recommending …

  in Nutritional yeast Comment by Avo Cado
• Oh that’s funny. So now it’s the kombu—kombucha thread. Also we should sing kumbaya and discuss Kombana, republic of the congo. jkd, it’s possible the nori people snuck in some maltodextrin or something. food processors are sometimes using that in a…

  in kombucha turning mouth black? Comment by Avo Cado
• jkd, was it the black tea variety? any more details?

  in kombucha turning mouth black? Comment by Avo Cado
• Application process? are they going to make you take the FMAT (Farmer’s Market Aptitude Test)? Hopefully it will be more of the field sobriety test variety.

  in raw biz questions! restrictions, permits? Comment by Avo Cado
• That would make a good bad sitcom episode. Where the vendors become convinced due to some language problems that you are actually from the health department.

  in raw biz questions! restrictions, permits? Comment by Avo Cado
• Let’s see to google i think I typed in “ways the government wants to steal your money and regulate your life”. Or wait, no it was “home based food business”. Your comment reminds me of a Ron Paul clip where he was talking about how we don’t even own…

  in raw biz questions! restrictions, permits? Comment by Avo Cado
• That’s awesome omshanti. my guess is you’ll need some of the following - liability insurance (if someone gets sick from the food) a state inspected kitchen—permit from the board of health, maybe? a business license zoning in your neighborhood keep …

  in raw biz questions! restrictions, permits? Comment by Avo Cado
• peel them and then put them all on a plate in the freezer so they’re not touching each other. Once they are frozen they won’t stick together too much and you can recombine them in a different container or bag.

  in Freezing Bananas Comment by Avo Cado
• spiritedmama—I have a used champion too. I’ve wondered though, if my blade is dull or if it just takes forever to grind certain things. How does yours do on say nuts or coconut meat? I’m kind of wishing I had one just like the champion but about 4 t…

  in Juicer Help! Comment by Avo Cado
• spirit, I’m with you on loving fig newtons. So you’re not alone there. The dried figs taste much more like the filling of fig newtons then the fresh ones. Does anyone know, aren’t a lot of the delicious calimnyrna dried ones boiled and then steam dr…

  in Figs! Comment by Avo Cado
• Have you considered getting a blood test for food allergies? It’s quite easy to test against several hundred foods for an immune system reaction. Another thought that comes to mind is the phototoxic reaction that can occur from figs.

  in fruit allergy? Comment by Avo Cado
• why not make your own young raw milk cheeses? Though if your goal is 100% raw vegan I suppose you’d be more interested in mock raw nut cheeses.

  in Becoming 100% raw vegan Comment by Avo Cado
• Okay I see what you’re saying. Yeah you’re right there probably isn’t a lot of data for things like sunflower sprouts. maybe it’s out there but no one has taken the time to collate it all. That would be cool to have all the nutrient horizontal bars …

  in Cronometer - better info for? Comment by Avo Cado
• writeeternity, do you mean like raw gourmet foods? cronometer seems to have about every fruit, vegetable, nut,etc… I think it’s possible to create your own individual food item or recipe on there. (Though I’ve never done that.) So if you weighed eve…

  in Cronometer - better info for? Comment by Avo Cado
• What sort of raw bread are you thinking of? Do you just mean sprouted, ground, and dehydrated grains or are you looking for more of a mock bread?

  in Raw food businesses list +comments and ratings Comment by Avo Cado
• Morning theft, Have you considered celiac disease? It’s just that you’ve had such a strong positive reaction to excluding grains and you identify wheat as being particularly troublesome and nauseating. Anyway, that’s great you’re feeling so good.

  in Immediate results :c) Comment by Avo Cado
• Honey can be raw, can’t it? what about the ‘really raw’ honey brand? It is true though that most honey sold in conventional grocery stores is not raw. Dates may be a better choice though because honey is almost pure sugar and dates actually have som…

  in Sweetener Confusion! Comment by Avo Cado
• wait so what’s the difference between heat treated and irradiated? Is this all ostensibly for bacteria?

  in Don't buy Indian mangoes! Comment by Avo Cado
• writeeternity – what substance do the evergreen trees produce? is it just the high pectin content of the cell walls? I would guess with nuts and seeds they freeze well because of their low water content.

  in freezing raw foods Comment by Avo Cado
• That’s funny inspire304. I’ve always thought of frozen bananas as being sort of like cryogenics. Because it is like that banana would have ‘died’ on the counter but we’ve extended it’s life span 30 fold. (or however many days later you take it out o…

  in freezing raw foods Comment by Avo Cado
• thank you for that Kandace. I did not know that. I knew many companies wouldn’t be conscientious in caring whether during processing temperatures rose. But it never occurred to me they might purposely blanch them. sheesh. you can’t trust any one.

  in freezing raw foods Comment by Avo Cado
• excellent question. I’ve wondered this too. The most obvious thing that freezing does is causes cell walls to rupture. I think because the water inside the cell expands. So I wonder if this would lower the amount of fiber in a food. As far as enzyme…

  in freezing raw foods Comment by Avo Cado
• Ah thank you Ray. Yeah it definitely was going all crazy on me. and then I’d try to correct it and it’d make it even worse. off topic, but I’ve never understood why the computer code on every forum corrects indentations. Did someone write one basic …

  in feeling weak Comment by Avo Cado
• Just to be safe I’d get to a good doctor pronto. (which unfortunately is only about 1 in a thousand.) You should definitely have your red blood cells tested for b12 and folate levels. If for some reason you don’t want to do this or can’t do this the…

  in feeling weak Comment by Avo Cado
• Also just to further complicate the issue, isn’t teflex just teflon? which we know causes cancer. On the other hand that may only be after it’s heated. Though you have to wonder if fatty foods would absorb some of the teflon. Particularly when they …

  in EXTREMELY Silly Question Comment by Avo Cado
• Durian— good to hear you downloaded the cron-o-meter. I’m using the mac version but I think the windows/mac are pretty similar if you have any questions. or hey maybe you’re using mac too. Just for fun I put in two durians to see what the nutritiona…

  in Hair loss Comment by Avo Cado
• Hey Dancing Durian— I would use the free program cronometer. I have personally used it and found it very helpful and user friendly. Because you eat such a consistent diet, it should be pretty easy to plug in a couple of typical days and click throug…

  in Hair loss Comment by Avo Cado
• I’ve made kraut but never kim chi but i think the basic steps are the same. just different ingredients. In general: chop add sea salt pound to break down cell walls and release juices put everything into a glass jar and press down with your wooden …

  in Fermented foods.. Comment by Avo Cado