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David Wolfe Cacao Beans

noreply@blogger.com (David Wolfe Fan Club) — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:24:00 +0000

A few years ago, when David Wolfe discovered raw cacao beans (sometimes called "cocoa beans"), the world changed. Up until that time, the raw chocolate nut from which all chocolate is made (raw cacao IS raw chocolate) was almost totally unknown to North America. You couldn't buy this food anywhere--internet included--so rare it was.

Keep in mind, however, that chocolate is one of the 15 most eaten foods in the entire world. Most people though are not eating the real raw chocolate. They are eating a by-product of a mega-industry that highly processed this original cacao bean into the cooked processed bar form most of us know.

However, David Wolfe discovered that there are many many benefits to eating the original cacao bean in its original form:

All of the highly-medicinal oils are retained in their original forms.
Raw Chocolate nuts are some of the highest vitamin C containing foods in the world. All vitamin C is lost when the chocolate is cooked and processed into bars.
When the whole cacao bean is eaten with the skin still on, the raw chocolate is one of the highest iron containing foods in the world as well.
Raw Chocolate is one of nature's premier "feel good" foods, helping to improve the chemistry of your brain.

In my experience, having tried many of the raw chocolate products on the market today, including Navitas (very popular in health-food stores), the David Wolfe Cacao Beans are simply the highest quality, retaining a clear crisp cacao bean skin (without discoloration), a wonderful simple chocolate flavor, and a great crunch.

I eat a few (5-10) of these raw cacao beans everyday, without processing them even into a smoothie, since they are incredibly healing and nourishing plain (or simply dipped into some honey or agave nectar).

Order some David Wolfe Cacao Beans today--you'll be glad you did!

Raw Vegan Chocolate Malt

noreply@blogger.com (David Wolfe Fan Club) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:41:00 +0000

Raw Vegan Chocolate Malt
(originally posted on http://www.goneraw.com/)

Servings: 1-4

Chocolate malt (a.k.a. raw cacao shake/smoothie).
You can use whatever sweetener you would like.

Ingredients:
Coconut water - from 1 coconut
4 packets stevia (or flavored liquid stevia) - I use Sweetleaf brand
1/3 - 1/2 cup raw agave nectar
3 T. raw cacao powder
2 T. raw carob powder
1 tsp. raw maca powder
1 tsp. raw lucuma powder
4 frozen bananas
Ice

Preparation:
Open fresh white coconut. Pour coconut water into blender.
(You can also add the coconut meat, but I scoop out the meat and freeze it to use it later in pies or ice cream).
Add stevia and agave. Blend well.
Add cacao powder and carob powder. Blend well.
Add maca powder and lucuma powder. Blend well.
Add 2 bananas and some ice. Blend well.
Add remaining bananas and ice. Blend to desired consistency.
Mine is like soft serve ice cream. Enjoy!

Raw Vegan Chocolate Strawberry Pie Recipe

noreply@blogger.com (David Wolfe Fan Club) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:01:00 +0000

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Try out this fantasic Raw Vegan Chocolate (raw cacao) strawberry pie recipe, found originally at http://www.goneraw.com/!

Raw Vegan Chocolate - Strawberry Pie
Gluten-Free and Refined-Sugar Free!

Servings: 8-10

Ingredients:
pie crust:

1c almonds, soaked
1c pecan nuts, soaked
1 1/2c dates
1/2c raw cacao powder (raw chocolate powder)
1/3c raw cacao nibs (raw chocolate nibs)
1/2c dried coconut flakes
2 tbsp raw agave nectar

filling:
3c strawberries (save a few for decoration)
2/3 ground cashew nuts or almonds
juice of 1 small lime or 1/2 lemon
2 to 4 tbsp raw agave nectar

Preparation:

Crust: Put all the ingredients in a food processor and blend until the mixture sticks together, form into a crust in the tart pan.

Filling: Mix the strawberries with your ground nuts adding some agave and lime/lemon juice. When nice but still a bit coarse pour over the crust and decorate wth some fresh strawberry slices. sprinkle gently with coconut flakes.

Leave in a freezer for about an hour before serving. Enjoy :)

Why "Raw" Chocolate?

noreply@blogger.com (David Wolfe Fan Club) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:32:00 +0000

David Wolfe and his company Sunfood Nutrition have been one of the first to introduce raw organic chocolate (also called "cacao") to the US market and the world market. But what is so significant about the chocolate being raw, as opposed to being processed through traditional heating and roasting methods?

It probably sounds unbelievable to many of us that a food as popular as chocolate might have a rather cryptic, hidden history--not necessarily what we may have been led to believe by the modern chocolate industry--especially given the fact that chocolate is one of the most widely-eaten foods in the entire world. In fact, at any given time, 1 out of every 100 people in the world is consuming chocolate in some form.

The modern commercial chocolate industry processes the heck out of its products. It roasts the chocolate for long periods of time at high temperatures, mixes in tons of additives, presses out its highly-enobled and refined oils, adds genetically-modified ingredients (like soy lecithin), adds artificial flavors (like synthetic vanilin), adds dairy (with all the hormones and antibiotics it contains), and adds cane sugar to the finished product.

For many of us, this is the only type of chocolate we have ever had. Fortunately, David Wolfe's Sunfood Nutrition imports some of the highest-quality raw organic chocolate beans (cacao) found anywhere in the world, and presents it to you in its original, unprocessed, untampered-with state.

Why is this significant?

First, all the original flavors and textures are completely intact, connecting you with the original organic cacao experience.
Secondly, the extremely high antioxident content of the chocolate has not been blocked by the addition of dairy and sugar (known blockers of the body's ability to use antioxidents).
Third, all of the many varied Phenethylamines (PEA) are completely intact. These chemicals are known as "love chemicals" as they make you feel like you are in love. They also help lift your mood (and are known to be lower in people with depression)--and help surpress your appetite, helping you lose weight.

These are just a few of the many, many important qualities of the raw organic cacao nut--now available to you from David Wolfe's Sunfood Nutrition.

Please stay tuned to future blog posts, as we're going to continue exploring in-depth all the amazing healing qualities of raw chocolate, and all the other raw superfoods that can help us all to have the best day ever!

Many blessings to you, and have the best day ever!

David Wolfe's Sunfood Nutrition

noreply@blogger.com (David Wolfe Fan Club) — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:29:00 +0000

Any fans of David Wolfe and his Sunfood Nutrition organization out there? I think you soon will be, if you try out his products.

The son of two medical doctors, David Wolfe has established himself over the past 14 years as the world's foremost authority on raw and living food nutrition, superfoods and superherbs, and healing your life by having the best day ever.

David's nutritional career began while he was still in school where he studyied mechanical enginering and eventually obtained a doctorate in law. As a side project, he taught classes on eating raw foods and healing your body through proper nutrition.

This led, in 1995 to the founding of a company originally called "Nature's FirstLaw". This company innovated in bringing the very highest quality raw and organic foods to the internet, available to anyone worldwide who had a computer.

The hallmarks of this company, since the beginning, have been distributing "foods,books, and products that are not only environmentally friendly and ecologically sustainable, but are also substantially improving the health of the planet, theplants, the animals, and the human population." This shows, in that recently, thecompany has built a new, totally environmentally-friendly headquarters in Southern California-the hub of its worldwide superfood shipping operation.

Since 1995, Nature's First Law (now known as Sunfood Nutrition) has been playing the leading role of any raw health-food company on the internet, sacrificingnothing to find and sell the highest quality and most nutritionally-rich foods on the planet-foods like chewy, moist, and absolutely guaranteed organic goji berries from Tibet and China, the powerful invigorating (and strong aphrodisiac) power of Peruvian powdered maca……

and quite possibly the most significant and joyful realization in the modern history of natural food: importing the highest-quality raw chocolate beans (organic raw cacao) from Equador, and bringing the unprocessed, un-tampered-with glory of this amazing flavor sensation food to the world in all its naked beauty. (For more information about raw chocolate, check out David Wolfe's book Naked Chocolate).

David Wolfe's Sunfood Nutrition company has survived and thrived on the internet for the past 14 years, and I suspect it will be here for many more years to come,bringing some of the highest-quality, most nutritionally-packed raw and livingfoods ever to anyone who has a computer.

Raw Foods List – Top Choices of Modern Raw Foodists

noreply@blogger.com (David Wolfe Fan Club) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:01:00 +0000

Right here, you will find a raw foods list of some of the most popular choices of modern raw foodists when it comes to good tasting, yet healthy raw organic foods.

Agave, Amber, Wild, 16oz (raw, certified organic)

This delicious tasting organic agave syrup/nectar is produced from the wild Salmania species Agave cactus in Mexico. You may not know but the Agave cactus is also used to produce Tequila. It is an ideal sweetener for any beverage or food. To produce such a syrup, the juice is collected from the plant core and carefully filtered and treated with natural enzymes into useful sugars. It tastes something like honey and maple syrup. You can use this to replace sugar, honey, maple syrup or any other sweet ingredients you normally use in food preparation. The syrup is processed within the acceptable temperature of 113°F.

People with diabetes and hypoglycemia will find this product, Agave nectar highly suitable for consumption because of its low glycemic index.

Health benefits of Agave Nectar

Agave contains saponins and fructans which according to Dr Sahelian are useful in wound healing and weight loss. Inulin, a type of fructan can actually increase satiety and decrease appetite, reduce cancer risks and lower cholesterol.

Cacao Butter, 14 oz. in Glass Jar, Sunfood Nutrition (raw, certified organic)

Raw Cacao Butter is very popular nowadays. The Cacao Butter produced by Sunfood Nutrition is both organic and raw, and totally chemical free, the purest oil from the cacao bean.

The raw, organic cacao nibs are first cold pressed into a cake to separate the oil from the protein and fiber at a temperate of 104°F. The liquid cacao butter is then expressed into a container before solidification takes place.

The Cacao butter can be added to your beverage, desert or ice cream to enhance its taste. Its aroma reminds you of eating chocolate, without feeling sinful because of its high nutrition value without the harms of weight gain.

You may not know this but Cacao butter can be used with a massage oil or on its own to moisturize your skin.

Other health benefits of Cacao Butter

Cacao butter can be used to treat eczema, dermatitis and other skin conditions. Even pregnant women can use the formulations to remove stretch marks. Recent studies have also shown that massaging the skin with cacao butter helps relieve stress, prevent cancer and improve our immunity because of its high CMP content.

Goji Berry Extract Powder, 8 oz. (raw, certified organic)

Goji berry extract powder produced by Sunfood Nutrition is the first 100% certified organic and raw goji berry powder in the world.

The little nice tasting berry, Goji berry has a strong reputation as a health promoter and protector. It is officially called Lycium barnarum but most laymen call it goji berry. Used widely in Chinese medicine, it has a wide range of medicinal properties. Containing 18 amino acids and 21 trace minerals, they are a power source of antioxidants including the powerful carotenoids that have cancer preventative properties. Its high level of polysaccharides makes it a perfect anti-aging and immunity boosting agent.

One of the most notable health benefits of the goji berry is its ability to protect visual health.

You can eat the raw or cooked berry or add the Goji Berry extract powder to different food and drink preparations such as fruit juices and beverages.

Raw Foods List

noreply@blogger.com (David Wolfe Fan Club) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:54:00 +0000

Are you looking for a raw foods list?

What are raw foods? You might have heard the term raw foodism. It actually describes a lifestyle and diet consisting of uncooked, unprocessed and very often organic whole foods as the dominant portion. The reason why many turn to raw foodism is because of health.

From the science of raw food, we understand the logic that cooking can actually destroy nutrition and turn helpful supplements and chemicals in foods into free radicals that harm our bodies. Raw food lists are convinced that by eating based on a raw foods list, you can lose weight, prevent and even heal their bodies of chronic diseases and illnesses.

Raw Foods List

Raw foods can include raw fruits, nuts, seeds, vegetables, sprouts, superfoods (such as raw chocolate (raw cacao), goji berries, maca, spirulina and other blue-green algaes, tree saps (such as maple sap), roots, bee pollens, etc.

A pure raw vegan diet consists purely of these above-listed foods, while many people do opt to have only 50-80% of their diet consist of raw and living foods.

The following is a raw foods list that is generally good for your health.

1. Fresh fruits and vegetables. Any of them are good as long as they fresh when you eat it.

2. Fresh sprouts

3. Nuts and seeds. Many of these are raw and unprocessed. Purchase them unshelled as they quickly oxidize and turn rancid when shelled.

4. Sun dried fruits. The reason why you should go for “sun dried” fruits is because they are processed under 118 degrees, the acceptable temperature to a raw foodist. Most dried fruits undergo heat processing of over 200 degrees!

5. Olives. Raw olives are great but hard to find. As an alternative, go for sun dried raw olives. If they are not preserved with salt, it is better.

6. Dates. These fruits are often sun dried and therefore organic and raw.

7. Agave syrup as a natural sweetener. Agave gives your foods a savory taste without the harmful effects of processed foods.

8. Dried spices and herbs for flavoring. These are considered raw and good to go in “cooking” your food.

9. Cacao butter. This is what gives us white chocolate, because it IS white chocolate. Being an organic and raw food, it does not mean it doesn't taste good. On the contrary, you can add this into your desert or ice cream and it tastes heavenly.

10. Goji berries and extracts. Goji berry extract in powder form is easier to find and prepare with your beverages and juices. They are rich in amino acids and boost immunity.