The easiest way to recognize a living food is to answer this question: "Is it still growing?" If yes, it's a living food. Good examples of living foods are vegetables and fruits growing wild or in your garden. My favorite memories of eating living foods are when I would pick wild berries and find myself eating most of them before I got home, or when I would be tempted to bite into a tomato that had just picked out of my garden. I even remember once pretending I was Bugs Bunny and biting into a carrot right after pulling it from the ground and wiping it clean. "What's up Doc?" It's an incredible experience I call "from garden to mouth". Those of you who have had similar experiences know what I mean when I say there is a distinct difference in the flavour and the energy that these foods provide.
Raw foods are the other stars of health and nutrition. Just remember this about raw foods: the older they get, the fewer nutrients they contain. Think about this: when any living food is picked, it is separated from its energy source (it's "umbilical connection" to Mother Earth), and its growth begins to slow. Within 24 to 48 hours after picking, all the growth stops. This is when a living food becomes an "adult" raw food. Now, as days go by, a raw food's powerful healing energies begin to slowly "radiate out". This may be evidenced by a change in color, a softer texture, a wrinkled appearance, a sweeter taste, etc. Be aware of this and choose only the freshest raw produce as you shop.
(by Rose Lee Calabro from Living in the Raw)
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