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2014-04-07
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We eat raw food from time to time, all of us. A salad, fruit, seeds and nuts. It is something that can be great. Not at Greenwoods, where idealism seems to be the theme, rather than flavour.If you want to win people over to a raw food diet, you need to give them something delicious. We did not get this. For $66 each we got a choice of a salad and smoothie or 'snacks' and smoothie. We chose one of each and waited. And waited. We figured that they must take a huge amount of care over their
If you want to win people over to a raw food diet, you need to give them something delicious. We did not get this. For $66 each we got a choice of a salad and smoothie or 'snacks' and smoothie. We chose one of each and waited. And waited. We figured that they must take a huge amount of care over their food to be taking so long. The kitchen was immaculate and almost clinical.
The smoothies came out and tasted fine (not as good as you can make at home, but OK) and were very small. They were banana, amaranth leaf and mango with a dusting of turmeric. It basically tasted of banana. I make a raw smoothie in the morning sometimes with raw beets, bananas, raw cacao, raw seeds and some MCT oil. It would blow theirs out of the water, and I am no raw food expert.
Next came the snacks and the salad. The snacks was a plate with a few dehydrated vegetables on it. They were rather sad and the tiny 'cake' that was on the plate was soft and mushy, with little flavour. The salad was comprised of a small handful of leaves with some raw okra, peppers and pineapple. It had a passionfruit and mustard dressing. The leaves were sad and had browned on the edges and the dressing was too pungent with no sweetness to cut through the tartness and acidity.
We also picked up a leaflet for the parent organisation; LifeFlow. It contained a lot of propaganda based on very little scientific fact. It says that all food that is not raw is toxic. It also says that we naturally eat raw vegan food as primates do (actually, the reason we developed a smaller stomach and larger brain, is due to more easily accessible nutrients from cooked food). The really worrying part is where, under foods classified as deadly, it lists 'all foods from Japan'.
While I respect raw food (as part of a balanced diet), I do not subscribe to GreenWoods' form. We were given substandard flavours and ingredients while bombarded with propaganda. They should spend more time on the taste and less time distributing leaflets if they want to convey their message more effectively.
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