Nuts and seeds may be raw but their enzymes are dormant, making them harder to digest. Beans and grains are filled with nutrients, however, cooking destroys nutrients and alters proteins and fats, causing them to produce mucus in the body. Cooking also destroys enzymes, making beans and grain less digestible. We consider sprouted grain, nuts or beans to have a greater health value than their dried forms. We would like to take a look at four of the most nutritious seeds in the world.
Raw seeds are high in delicate oils.
Tasty as they may be, they are useless in health, and have been reduced from the height of a delicate nutritious food, to junk food. Instead, use fresh seeds where the fragile oils have not been compromised by heat, light or air. Wherever flax seed becomes a regular food item among the people, there will be better health. Mahatma Gandhi Flax seed is one-third oil, the remainder consisting of fiber, protein and mucilage. In our salad dressing section, we have looked at the magical oil that comes from flax.