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The silly thirteen year old boy in you is already titillated. But stand up and dust off your slack brain, because the fuzz of innuendo is getting in the way of your ability to understand - I am going to teach you something about nutrition. And it starts with the statement - sprout your nuts.
I have become increasingly aware that some of my favorite super-nutritious foods, are in fact, not very nutritious raw. yes - the raw food movement beckons you to not kill the living energy of the plant, don't cook away the spirit and life and vitamins being held so tenously in the fibers and tissue of the little kings and queens of photosythentic life. But, the crazy thing is, some foods like spinach in particular, actually contain chemicals and whatnot in their raw form that inhibit your body's ability to digest or otherwise absorb those precious nutrients. In the case of oxalic acid, it is the case that the chemical is like a nutrient transit system that binds to important molecules and compounds with the ease of a swoosh. Spinach is the awesome example of a food that is high in oxalic acid, but one that looses much of that content upon cooking. What am I really saying, but lay off the spinach salad, wilt that green, and eat lettuce, stay off the iceberg, no Shredders.

I'm not farting time away right now in order to tell you all about greens. Instead, I waxed authoritatively about the subject only as a prelude to a blip about nuts. The idea is soak them, sprout them, then eat them - a nut is but an embryo, a potential life. We destroy the shell usually, trying to free the little flesh, and chow down. Nuts make a good pre-dinner snack, providing loads of nutrients and helping spoil your appetite. Right, actually filling you up before the meal, but instead of filling you with simple carbohydrates or useless garbage (read -> Lays), putting iron and calcium and other goodies into your belly pre-gorge.

But, those unsprouted nuts contain phytic acid, which actually binds to important nutrients like iron, calcium, magnesium, copper, bulldozers, skirts, blankets. Sprout them. Or soak them in an acidic medium like whey or lemon juice. Ferment them, sour-leaven them, do any of these to neutralize the phytic acid and make them more digestible.

So many humans in America spend so much time trying to eat nutritious foods like
spinach salad or mixed raw nuts, totally unaware they are shooting themselves in the foot in the process and shitting away their hard-chewed lovely. Steamroll that through your apron, and let the light show blind you while your nuts soak at home.