A raw food diet means eating uncooked, unprocessed plant foods, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, sprouted grains and seaweed. The underlying principle behind this diet states that heating foods over about 110 degree Fahrenheit depletes nutrients and damages enzymes that aid digestion.
While backpacking, your food must be high in energy and nutrition, as well as lightweight and durable. Typical raw food preparation methods such as dehydration and soaking can help. Raw-foodists also value food collected in the wild, deeming it more nutritious than industrially produced equivalents.
A mix of organic raw oats, sunflower seeds and dehydrated fruits soaked overnight makes a slow-energy-release breakfast that will prove essential when on the move. Dehydrated flax crackers keep for weeks in an airtight tub; spread with avocado or nut butter and a squeeze of lime to get the carbohydrates and fats necessary for physical exertion.
Safe consumption of raw foods requires knowledge and advanced preparation; consult a health practitioner or other expert before making these foods part of your diet.
