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where do you live? for me it's local food, mostly raw vegetables, lots of fruit, olive, nuts, figs, dates, clementines, oranges, persimmons, onions, garlic, lee

where do you live? for me it's local food, mostly raw vegetables, lots of fruit, olive, nuts, figs, dates, clementines, oranges, persimmons, onions, garlic, leek (fermented), rice sometimes, rarely (few times per year, raw eggs or small fishes) as I'm full with fibers. It makes a lot of sense to do that as we don't spend as much energy as our ancestors or wild animals, and the climate is getting hot and dry due to climate destruction

gardenhedge 4y ago
What raw vegetables do you eat? Do you do any prep to them?
- 11235813213455 4y ago
  onions, garlic, mushroom, leek, carots, peppers (with lemon or fermented - I let them get very ripe and soft or I get them at the market, that's the ones nobody want but are the most nutritious)
  - mistyvales 4y ago
    You should cook mushrooms for better nutrient absorption. They have thick cell walls full of chitin that needs to break down during cooking, so eating them raw isn't great for you
    - 11235813213455 4y ago
      even for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus? I masticate them well, and it tastes good I see what you mean, for example for tomatoes as well, but it's a compromise, cooking destroys other valuable things
      - mistyvales 4y ago
        Cooking also activates other nutrients, such as for dark greens such as spinach which is full of oxalic acid which breaks down during cooking so you can absorb more calcium and iron. The mushrooms you posted definitely are absorbed better in the body by cooking them. All mushrooms have chitin in the cell wall that needs to break down by cooking to digest.
sva_ 4y ago
I live in Germany and went vegetarian some 15 years ago. Traditional German food is hardly agreeable with a vegetarian diet, so I learned other dishes. Then at some point, I started eating fish again, and that's where I ended up. I also came to be on a high fiber diet for a while, as you describe, but I got some stomach issues from it and had to adjust it.
- 11235813213455 4y ago
  Ok, I'm in France, I can relate because the traditional French food is bread, cheese, meat, etc.. even around mediterranean. I haven't eat bread since years and for fibers, it takes time to transition (your guts bacteria), and also relearn how to masticate efficiently, typically I eat almost everything (seeds for example grapes, melons, watermelons, skin when possible, e.g kiwis, persimmons, grapes, mangoes, many others), I like it more than the juice itself

gardenhedge 4y ago

What raw vegetables do you eat? Do you do any prep to them?

11235813213455 4y ago
onions, garlic, mushroom, leek, carots, peppers (with lemon or fermented - I let them get very ripe and soft or I get them at the market, that's the ones nobody want but are the most nutritious)
- mistyvales 4y ago
  You should cook mushrooms for better nutrient absorption. They have thick cell walls full of chitin that needs to break down during cooking, so eating them raw isn't great for you
  - 11235813213455 4y ago
    even for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus? I masticate them well, and it tastes good I see what you mean, for example for tomatoes as well, but it's a compromise, cooking destroys other valuable things
    - mistyvales 4y ago
      Cooking also activates other nutrients, such as for dark greens such as spinach which is full of oxalic acid which breaks down during cooking so you can absorb more calcium and iron. The mushrooms you posted definitely are absorbed better in the body by cooking them. All mushrooms have chitin in the cell wall that needs to break down by cooking to digest.

sva_ 4y ago

I live in Germany and went vegetarian some 15 years ago. Traditional German food is hardly agreeable with a vegetarian diet, so I learned other dishes. Then at some point, I started eating fish again, and that's where I ended up. I also came to be on a high fiber diet for a while, as you describe, but I got some stomach issues from it and had to adjust it.

11235813213455 4y ago
Ok, I'm in France, I can relate because the traditional French food is bread, cheese, meat, etc.. even around mediterranean. I haven't eat bread since years and for fibers, it takes time to transition (your guts bacteria), and also relearn how to masticate efficiently, typically I eat almost everything (seeds for example grapes, melons, watermelons, skin when possible, e.g kiwis, persimmons, grapes, mangoes, many others), I like it more than the juice itself