Sprouting Lentils, Grains And Beans: Protein For A Raw Vegan Diet 

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Oh wow! great you found them! Sunflower sprouts are my favorite! I grow and eat a lot of them!

What do you do for your porridge if you don’t mind me asking because I tried making some with almond milk, maple syrup and strawberries but it just tasted very bland and chalky. Is this pretty much how it tastes? Thank you!

Excellent! Yes raw protein is easy when you learn how to sprout!

I know people who sprout in Hawaii. It goes pretty quick and you rinse often. I’d definitely give it a try!

Hi Gisela, I live near you and I've sprouted buckwheat and lentils no problem. Just need to rinse.

Rosalie Clark good! Keep going with the sprouting. It takes a while to get the hang of it and also to find your favorite sprouts. I find broccoli sprouts kind of finicky and hard to grow where as alfalfa, clover, radish, all a breeze! Lentils are my favorite and I have them everyday. However the gut needs time to adjust, so expect indigestion from legume sprouts for many months. If you do the work to adjust you’ll be free from cooked starches and proteins forever!!! It’s so liberating!

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I understand the temptation but I don't miss black beans and rice at all. I believe that's because I have spent enough time without it. My microbiome has adjusted away from the cooked starches. I do frequently have sprouted lentils though. For me I get the same satisfaction from spouted lentils that I would from cooked beans. Every time I eat living food i feel so much better. Give it more time Ravi I think you'll find you will do just fine, if not better, without cooked rice and beans. Much love and success to you on your journey!

Thank Tracy! We should definitely get you sprouting before our time together is done!

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quinoa is an excellent food yes its ok

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can you sprout red lentils? isn't this impossible, because the outer layer is already missing?

I’m also wondering this to (:

Yes I fully agree that lentils are the best for eating sprouted. Chick peas are more of a once in a while for me but I do find sprouted lentils to be quite easily digested and very delicious. I used to cook lentils regularly as a cooked vegan but I actually prefer them raw now. My intuition leads me to believe raw sprouted lentils are better for my health than cooked lentils. Overall limiting most legumes is probably the best. I much prefer high water content fruits and vegetables! For sheer variety and especially for social occasions raw hummus is good to have in the repertoire.

Ah yeah, that makes sense! Yes, I recently out of health necessity started eating all raw after a few years of cooked vegan. I really enjoy sprouted lentils now, and also used to love the cooked kind. I believe they're more healthful this way too. Brenda Davis also talks about "blue zones" and how they all consume legumes. She also eats them but from what I've heard in her talks she eats them also mostly raw and sprouted.

Great info and thank you for sharing your experience and insights! 🙏

How to sprout garbanzo beans ?

Yeah I agree Ravi. I like the garden of life protein powders. Weight training and building muscle mass is important and having good sources of raw vegan protein is essential. Between whole foods and supplements its easier than ever to meet our protein needs for muscle growth without compromising!

Hi Felicia, Yes Bob's Red Mill should be fine! You'll know if it sprouts! Most buckwheat groats at the store will sprout.

@@RawVeganRising awesome! Thank you!

Hey Miguel, anti nutrients are removed when sprouted. All nuts, seeds and legumes have an enzyme coating that discourages animals from eating them. But soaking in water removes the enzyme. This is why Squirrels burry their nuts. It’s not to store them for winter but rather to remove the enzyme coating. Very ingenious those squirrels! For the best health and digestion I think it’s better to avoid most beans in large quantities whether raw or cooked. Really these complex starches are a burden on digestion and the organs of elimination. If you really want to eat legumes just have them sprouted in smaller quantities and you’ll be fine. Have you been raw for a while or are you just starting?

@@RawVeganRising Thanks a lot for you time and for replying. I´ve been raw for a year before and now getting back to raw foods, the only cooked foods are basically mucusless as mentioned by Arnold Ehret´s work. Just wanted to know more about the process of sprouting. Totally agree, these type of foods, such as nuts and seeds, legumes, should be eaten in moderation as they are very complex, I try to focus on the fruit mainly and some fats just to balance out a bit, because only on fruit you feel like you´re about to take off jeje :)

Miguel Montez excellent! Sounds like you’re on the right track! I encourage you to try sprouting for yourself! It’s fun and adds so much variety to a raw vegan diet!

@@RawVeganRising Sure thanks, keep up the great videos!!

I will sometimes have sprouted buckwheat or sprouted groats but i think its best to avoid all the gluten grains. Even if sprouted they should be consumed in smaller qualities. Cooked grains are just useless to the body and cause congestion and burden on the pancreas. I personally don't recommend cooked grains in any form.

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Jalen Sills Hi thanks for the comment! Vitamineral Green is an excellent product. I used it for years. I do think having the spirulina is worth it though. Personally I like being able to control how much spirulina is in a smoothie for protein. Since I started buying the Health Force spirulina regularly I havent bought the vitamineral green. I think you should try getting a bottle of the spirulina and see how you like it! 🌱

Raw Vegan Rising oh okay awesome! I appreciate the response (:

Hey there Jay, If you're doing a fruit detox the most easy thing to digest will be the steamed veggies and starches. Sprouted legumes and grains might take a little more time for your microbiome to be able to digest them well. It took me at least a year of eating only raw to be able to digest sprouted lentils well and now i love them! I eat them all the time. Instead of eating cooked food I might suggest juice fasting. Stopping all digestion really helps the body detox more easily. Fresh made green juices and fruit juices will provide energy and calories without interfering with the elimination of toxins.

Or would slow detox down less

Raw Vegan Rising Hey just saw you’re reply, thank you so much for it! You’re one of my idols love your videos and am striving to reach your point within a couple years. Just finished a 10 day apple juice fast 2 days ago boy that was a challenge saw huge improvements in my healing though. Have a tribest coming in soon Can’t wait to try my first green juice, have been told by a few coaches all fruits is best way to go for healing I’m sure a green juice would curb a craving though in lower times thanks again for that and please keep the content coming! 🙏

@@jlincoln878 Juice fasting doesn't slow down detox it just allows the body to eliminate way more easily. But you only do it for shorter periods of time like a month or so. Eating fruit is great but still requires a lot of energy to digest. If you dont want to do a juice fast and want to stay on a fruit diet then use steamed veggies to slow detox.

And I’m aiming to get around 75-80 grams of protein a day.

Hey Jalen, Congrats on purchasing the Health Force products! They are the best! Green smoothies are one of the secrets of a raw vegan diet. Anything green is going to have amino acids and also tons of minerals which is great for energy at the gym, recovery time, and building muscle. Its funny because i'm so skinny in this video. I had just come off of a serous amount of fasting and cleansing and was at my lightest weight ever as i was still in the transition process to becoming 100% raw vegan. Since the making of this video I have put on some serious muscle mass working out at the gym and Ive had a lot of ease and success doing so. The real key to building muscle is hypertrophy in the gym. After that make sure you are eating adequate calories to grow. You have to be in a caloric surplus to grow muscle tissue and raw carbs are amazing for this. 75-80g of protein per day is great and more than enough especially in the form of spirulina and greens. These proteins are so much more available for our body that it changes the whole equation of protein needs for building muscle. I would definitely eat more sunflower sprouts than legume sprouts. Even though lentils are good they are no where near as energy giving as sunflower sprouts. When I make sunflower sprout smoothies I literally fit in as much as i can into the blender probably a few cups or sometimes more. You just have to experiment for yourself and see. Everything you've described sounds like a winning combination for longterm success as a raw vegan. For me the key to working out, feeling good, looking good and staying raw is to make high calorie smoothies with bananas, dates, flax, chia, hemp, spirulina, greens and protein powder if desired. One smoothie can have 50g protein and 1000 calories! Work hard at the gym and have two of those smoothies a day, along with your other meals, and you will be rockin!!!

Raw Vegan Rising Man... thank you very much. I think this is exactly what I needed. I’m ready to feel like myself again. Have energy, vitality, feel like a kid again and just have that appreciation for life which I feel like can be reached through a truly clean and healthy body and mind. And as of the sunflower sprouts. Are these just raw sunflower seeds I can find at maybe a whole foods and then sprouted?? Also, so I’m currently adding a tbs of chia and flax to my green smoothies before and after the gym along with the hemp protein powder. Are the sunflower sprouts gonna be higher in fat and maybe a little over board on fat or do you think they’ll be just fine?? Compared to the lentil sprouts.

@@JalenSills By the time a sunflower seed sprouts the fats have converted. Sunflower sprouts are not high in fat like the seeds. What they are high in is amazing life force energy! Sunflowers are one of the fastest growing plants on earth and are delicious, nutritious and fun to grow! Compared to lentils they are probably the same for fat content, which will be low, but higher in energy and digestibility. Also you must sprout the black oil sunflower seeds from the hardware store or garden store sold as birdseed. Get a big bag for dirt cheap and sprout in a jar first and then transfer to a tray with soil for best results. The kind you eat at whole foods isn't the right kind. I made a video on how to sprout sunflower seeds. This was one of the first videos i ever made so its a little funky but this is the gold right here man! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sDAxswimBWc.html

Raw Vegan Rising thank you so much man! I’ll have to give a try and get back to you! Thanks again (:

We definitely need to be eating raw, unwashed, unsanitized food. If you are deficient in B12, and 40% of Americans are, it is because there is no naturally occurring bacteria in the diet. Being afraid of raw food is absurd. It only promotes life. Cooked food poses far more risk to our health than raw. In fact, I grow sunflower sprouts in fresh homemade vegan compost in order to ingest as much bacteria into my gut as possible. This is the true probiotic. One of the reasons humans are so sick is because we are afraid of bacteria that is essential for health.

@@RawVeganRising thank you

@@RawVeganRising I so agree with you about eating our food with all the healthy bacteria but I remember when my mother used to sprout she ran into problems sometimes with the sprouts getting moldy. Have you run into this issue and if so how did you deal with it? Love your channel btw and so glad I found you!

Debbie SP to reduce the risk of mold store the spout containers in a cool location away from light.

You're right. I was skinny in this video. I was going through my raw food transition and still in detox phase. Amazingly all my weight came back but healthier and better than ever. If you look at my newer videos you will see how much more I weigh. My journey into transitioning to a 100% raw vegan diet has taught me that things get worse before they get better. Our bodies are sick from the cooked food and animal products and being afraid of what people think of us as we heal ourselves is only going to hold us back.

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