About Raw Food Diet

Rawism or raw foodism is the recent lifestyle about consumption of organic uncooked and unprocessed foods as the main food in everyday diet.This lifestyle believe that it is time to return to our ancient technique in preparing food so that we could have a healthier life. Although the diet is usually connected with the raw veganism, focusing in eating raw plant and vegetables, some of rawism also consumed raw meat and other animal product.


The style is popular lately, considering the plenty raw food books that we could find in the market today. Depending on the choosen method and the desired effects, raw food diet consist of standard golden pyramid of food. Including the consumption of raw fruits, vegetables, seed and nuts, raw fish (sashimi), raw meat (like carpaccio or steak tartare) and not pasteurized dairy products.

Any diet consisting primarily on unheated food, just to be warmed on a temperature less than 40 °C (104 °F) to 46 °C (115 °F)), could be considered a rawism menu. The most popular form of rawism is raw vegan, prohibiting any consumption of animal product, though dairy product still can be tolerated. Other style including the omnivorous raw foodism, and those who recommends full animal product (like in eskimo's no carb diet).