The Amazing Healing Properties of Fermented Foods

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /> </span><span style="clear: right; float: right; font-size: large; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><img alt="http://indayze.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/img_1004.jpg" class="shrinkToFit decoded" height="400" src="http://indayze.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/img_1004.jpg" width="298" /></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Photo Credit:indayze.files.wordpress.com</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'Between the hard and fast dichotomies of cooked and raw, dead and alive, is this beautiful thing called fermented. A place where many of the digestive challenges associated with raw foods (e.g. enzyme inhibitors, anti-nutrients, <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/page/opening-pandoras-bread-box-critical-role-wheat-lectin-human-disease">lectins</a>) are overcome in favor of not just preserving their benefits (e.g. enzyme activity, vitamin content, life energy), but amplifying them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> Also overcome are the adverse consequences of cooking, e.g. enzyme destruction, vitamin activity degradation, oxidized fats, denatured proteins, etc., while still benefiting from the enhanced digestibility and assimilation that certain cooking applications offer. Fermented food is in many ways the complementary union of cooked and raw, as well as their transcendence – an image, not unlike the Tai Chi, comes to mind.' </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://foodworldorder.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-amazing-healing-properties-of.html">more... </a></span>

The Amazing Healing Properties of Fermented Foods

     Photo Credit:indayze.files.wordpress.com 'Between the hard and fast dichotomies of cooked and raw, dead and alive, is this beautif...

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