Raw Food Nutrition

Raw food nutrition is much more complete than most people think. When someone knows I eat a diet of raw food and I'm almost completely vegan, they always want to know about my raw food vegan nutrition: where do I get my protein, my iron. Especially since I'm still breast feeding.

I always explain that greens have the highest quality of nutrients and are high in protein, iron and calcium. And that one glass of carrot juice gives me 100 times more calcium than supplements (they call that higher bioavailability). I thought you might like to see my raw food nutrition chart of the raw food I ate today.

This is my today's raw food menu :

16 Oz Green Drink (from Green Powder)
Fruits
16 Oz Super Food Smoothy
Large All Green Juice
2 servings of Raw Vegan Sushi
Small Carrot/Fennel Juice
Raw Chocolate Cake
Salad

Most fruits and vegetables on the list below are either juiced or blended (the only way I can eat so many veggies). I entered all foods in my FitDay.com account.

Here's a breakdown of the % protein, fat and carbs that I ate today.

If you'd like to see the specific foods I ate, you can download the foodchart here.

Lastly, I thought you might like to see a breakdown of the nutrients. Am I getting my iron, calcium etc.? Even though the chart below is a little like comparing apples with oranges, since I'm comparing conventional foods with organic juiced foods, you'll get an impression. A few notes:

• Keep in mind that the nutrients source is Fitday and based on average conventional greens. Many believe that organic greens have as much as 50 times the amount of nutrients that conventional greens have.
  
  
• The vitamins and minerals in raw food, especially the greens, are organic (colloidal) minerals not the inorganic minerals in cooked food. This means that they are much easier to absorb (especially when juiced). Thus, I'd have to eat less nutrients and less raw greens to get the same amount of nutrients (e.g. calcium) as if I were to eat cooked food.
  
  
• Not included are my supplements: I take B-12 and coral calcium and I get Vitamin D from the sun...
  
  

  

  
  
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