About the benefits of soaking seeds and nuts
It is no secret that nuts of all raw foods are the most difficult to digest food. Dry they are hard and bitter to the taste, and even a small amount you can feel the heaviness in the stomach. Why is this so? The fact that seeds and nuts that are available on the market - are dormant. In this form, they are practically not absorbed and excreted unchanged. At rest, dry nuts and seeds keep contained within a substance called enzyme inhibitors (substances that suppress the activity of enzymes), whose function is to protect the seed and inhibit germination in adverse conditions. They give a bitter taste. When the seed falls from the tree, deprived of moisture, it dries and the embryo falls asleep, in the spring, when snow melts, to re-awaken and give new life. Nature does not allow seed to germinate before the appointed time, preserving its viability, thereby hedging that it provided sufficient soil moisture to germinate and to continue the race. According to Dr. Edward Howell when we eat dry seeds or nuts, you neutralize some of the enzymes that highlights our body that can even lead to an increase in the pancreas. There are 2 ways to destroy enzyme inhibitors. The first is to cook the food, but in this case will crumble also and enzymes.The second option is more preferable. We put the seeds in a moist environment, i.e., soak or sprout. The inhibitors are destroyed, and the number of enzymes is increased in 2 times. What's going on. In soaked nuts and seeds changes the chemical composition and triggers germination. The essence of this process - the conversion of complex substances into more simple in the embryo, the inactive growth substances aktiviziruyutsya and promote the synthesis of enzymes that degrade complex spare substances more easily. First, enzymes turn the starch into simple sugars (fructose wheat is, therefore, sprouts have a sweet taste). A little later under the action of other enzymes, spare proteins turn into amino acids. By about the third day the decomposition of fats to fatty acids. Thanks to this chemical process soaked nuts and seeds become more digestible. They become sweet, the water washes away the inhibitors, taking with him the bitterness. We get nutrients in the most accessible form an active enzyme system of plants, macro - and microelements, flavonoids and a huge number of vitamins and antioxidants. This whole complex of effective substances organically embedded in the living tissue of plants and is well balanced in quantity and ratio. Soaking significantly increases the nutritional value of nuts and seeds. Also changes the taste, they are juicy, sweet and almost no way inferior to its fresh counterpart. Besides, if in doubt, don't do processed product, soak - a sure way to find out. Damaged or roast the seed in the process locks rotten, soft and dramatically different color than the living nuts and seeds. How to dunk. It's simple: raw nuts or seeds, you need to pour drinking water and leave for a few hours or overnight (depending on species) at room temperature, in the morning rinse and drain the water. Sprouts wait not as simple already soaking triggers germination. As soon as the hatch sprout, the nutritional value is on the wane, as the substance is being spent on growth. Soaked nuts and seeds can be stored in the refrigerator for about three days. But if they are washed, dry thoroughly and place in a container or jar with a tight lid, they will be able to maintain and preserve the natural flavor for about a week. Soaking nuts and seeds we have them animated. In the waking state according to its taste and nutritional properties are far superior to sleeping.








