elaine gottchal on soaking nuts and seeds

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I ran into this on the Healing Crow site:

Have you heard about soaking nuts and seeds prior to eating them? Sally

Fallon, in her book <A

HREF= " http://www.acclakelouise.com/acc99/htm/genest2.htm " >Nourishing

Traditions</A>, recommends soaking nuts because they

have enzyme inhibitors that stress the digestive system and that soaking in a

salt and water solution then slow (24 hr) roasting eliminated them.

 

Elaine writes: I do not know what Sally Fallon's background is but every

vegetable and fruit that we eat with seeds (like tomatoes) zucchini, and I

suspect nuts as well will not sprout and grow unless there is moisture. If that

means intestinal digestive enzyme inhibition, OK, but I doubt it. If one likes

to

do that, I cannot see where it could hurt you but I do not think the reasoning

behind it is valid.

She seems to be ingoring the fact that most small seeds in fruits and

vegetables are either a)discarded or b)undigested. Most people if they are,

say,

cutting open a bell pepper, for example, will discard the pit. Or most fruit

cores are discarded that have bigger seeds. Seeds in most vegetables like

zuchinni are too small to chew, and would just pass through the system, since

they

are surrounded in cellulose. I doubt phytates would be released.

Chris