The closer I can get to the way nature provided it, the better. We must always try to eat organic produce. Well organic produce is free of pesticides. There is life force still flowing through organic produce. It is important because so long as the food we eat is still alive, it still has all of its enzymes intact.
Enzymes are what make it so that fruit rots after it dies.
Every single fruit and vegetable has the exact enzymes necessary to digest themselves. If the produce is eaten raw, we do not have to expend nearly as much energy digesting our food because a great deal of the work is done for us. Because the enzymes of the fruit or vegetable are intact, we do not have to secrete as much of our own precious enzyme supply to digest it. Well our body has hundreds of different enzymes that function to help us maintain ourselves. They are like catalysts for the processes in our body that allow us to keep our body free of disease.