You are right raw milk is not going to make you sick, but the problem I used to have with it it is the taste and smell. It smells/tastes like the animal you are drinking it from. My dad used to eat it daily raw (sheep’s milk) not for health reason but simply didn’t bother to boil it and wait for it to cool.
Having said that, I don’t think it is more healthy than boiled. Probably the same, but with stench of the animal it’s coming from.
Making it into kefir and or yogurt or cheese it is a different story. Such processing tends to hide the stench and I’ve eaten in the past raw fresh cheese and at yogurt.
Again, the raw food craze (other than some veggies, fruits, nuts, honey annd all food that it widely accepted as edible while raw) is overblown. Perhaps most people can eat 2OZ of raw fish or steak and not get sick, but I guarantee you that a great majority of people will get sick if they consumed a 12 oz steak, or fish raw. Can’t possibly be healthy if it makes you throw up lol.
This is similar to many widely accepted as normal, such as heated honey that is sold in the grocery stores. It is one of most dangerous foods that one can consume while the raw unheated version is actually healthy, if used in small amounts, yet you rarely find it in grocery stores.
Funny you mention pomegranates. Yes they are healthy and growing up they were plentiful from about September to January. The ones that are actually sold in stores (sweet ones) are ok and relatively healthy BUT if you want the superfood of all superfoods try and find the wild pomegranates I grew up eating. They are about 1/2 or 1/3 size of the store bought ones and they taste tart not sweet, but just the right balance where you can eat them but not notice any sweetness. Boy were they ever healthy. Remember they used to be the go to choice if you ever had some kind of food poisoning, or upset stomach, or if you happened to overeat at some occasion, or felt bloated. You’d just consume one wild pomegranate and you’d feel you didn’t even have dinner lol
Btw they were not cultivated, they grew wildly in the countryside. But even wild blueberries that I would collect in countryside were really healthy and had a bit of tartness to it. Way better than store sold ones.
I aim to eat 25g of Chia seeds every day. This is mainly for the fibre and to ensure my digestion systems operate smoothly. My younger children also like to eat some Chia seeds from time to time for the same reason. We tend to have them in a smoothie.
Moringa leaves (sulforaphane) sauteed like spinach and surprisingly tasty if you add garlic, because we have a tree. Barbados cherries (mega vitamin c + antioxidants) also because we have a tree, and starfruit ALSO from our tree which I happen to think is the best cure for constipation that grows. But that’s my own observation. Dunno if it’s really true.
I probably consume 40ml of EVOO every day. I put it on a lot of foods…just stir it in.
At least 3x a week I empty 2 small containers of yogurt into a bowel with a cup of blueberries and 2 bananas and eat it. We eat a lot of apples, oranges, grapes, almonds, pumpkin seeds and strawberries too.
I make red beets caviar once a week. Cooked and shredded red beets, minced prunes, pecans, garlic and home made mayonnaise (EVOO, apple vinegar, mustard, salt).
Yes! Overpriced seeds on Amazon or a seedling if you know anyone. They grow like CRAZY. We are constantly chopping ours down to the ground and it sprouts again.
But we live in Florida. They tolerate light frost but I don’t know how far north they manage.
Channa dal, split Indian garbanzo beans. Their glycemic index is 8. After in soaking overnight, they cook in the pressure cooker in just 20 minutes. If you’re concerned about lectins, the preseoking and the pressure cooker get rid of almost all of them.
Sardines in a middle eastern salad are quick and very easy.
One of my regular choices is tempeh, which I try to incorporate into my meals at least 1/2 a week. Tempeh is a traditional Indonesian food made from fermented soybeans. What makes tempeh particularly interesting are its health benefits:
We have seeds, BTW, which I would cheerfully send to anyone, except for some reason I’ve been unable to get any of them to sprout. I can’t figure out what’s wrong. If someone has an answer let me know.
Here’s a related article on the use of spices for antimicrobial benefits. I suppose that means bad for bad bugs but not bad (good?) for good bugs? Posted by Massimo on Twitter
