Groman, yes, I meant raw vegan. The diet plans I wanted to discuss in this thread were to be similar to the one the woman was looking for. There are, of course raw dieters that use meat, but they are rare.
I thought we had a thread on this, but it’s not possible to search for “raw”. The B12 that **Hari ** mentioned was the reason. There isn’t any vegan source of B12. It was also my understanding that our bodies wouldn’t be able to break down some raw foods well enough to get all the nutrients needed. I’ll withdraw the certainty in that statement and look for a cite.
It’s not a commonly-consumed food item, but it seems to occur naturally in a particular kind of nutritional yeast. Plant sources typically aren’t considered to have reliably-accessible forms of B12.
I stand corrected. Thanks.
In my experience, there are some vitamins that are hard to extract without solvent extraction or steam extraction. IIRC, this was the reason it took a while for organic baby formulas to arrive - to get the vitamins needed without organic-prohibited methods took a few years to get the machinery and techniques developed and tested.
Adults don’t need this nutrients because we get them from a varied diet (well, in theory).
Typical babies don’t need these nutrients because they get it from breastmilk, using their mother’s systems to get the nutrients properly added to the food.
Therefore, I know a baby could thrive on a vegan, no breastmilk diet - babies do it all the time on soy formula. But to add raw? That would be difficult to thrive on, IMO.
I did a nutritional analysis for a woman using a scientologist formula, with a barley and soy milk base. It had the wrong proportion of proteins, fats, and would eventually cause harm if given exclusively. Since she was using it for half a bottle once per day, with breastmilk making up the remainder of the food, I thought it would probably be okay, but advised commercial formula as a first choice.
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