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For the explosion and popularity of the raw foods diet, you may be wondering should I
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cook my vegetables or should I eat them all raw? Well, it depends. Cooking does destroy
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a few vitamins in your fruits and vegetables; mainly it destroys vitamin C. So when you're
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consuming your fruits and vegetables you're wanna have a mix of raw and cooked because
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there is also other attributes to fruits that are enhanced and made more available to us
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by cooking. For instance like ethylene, that gorgeous red chemical that makes tomatoes
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so beautiful, is best accessed when our tomatoes are cooked so like ethylene are very powerful
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cancer food but you can't get the true benefits out of the tomatoes unless they are cooked
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and broken down sightly. Dehydrated fruits and vegetables are not quite as fresh and
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they're not quite as vibrant as fresh fruits and veggies. Now we haven't destroyed all
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the vitamins because they've dehydrated, not cooked above 118 degrees. But they might be
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on a shelf longer, they've been sitting in a dehydrator for a couple of days, you're
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truly gonna get more benefit out of the fresh, uncooked, un-dehydrated fruits and veggies.
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So here's my recommendation -- eat a variety of fruits and vegetables, eat a variety of
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raw and cooked fruits and vegetables and make sure that they're the best quality you can
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get. It does matter if they're organic, if they're fresh, if they're local. So you can
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include some frozen fruits and vegetables but make sure they're mostly fresh.