It seems to be getting harder and harder to simply grow something nutritious and sell it in a whole, unprocessed form.
The most recent whole food casualty: raw almonds.
Studies have shown that eating almonds with a meal can impede glycemic and insulin responses – a welcome benefit for diabetics. In addition, almond intake protects proteins from oxidative damage while delivering vitamin E and other antioxidants, magnesium, calcium, folate, protein, fiber and living enzymes.
But : “Would the benefits of almonds also be true of pasteurized almonds?”
Previous studies, as recently in 2006, used raw California almonds at a time when a raw almond was actually a raw, unprocessed, unpasteurized whole food. Two years later, everything has changed.
