“Let food be
thy medicine and medicine be thy food” - Hippocrates
chickpeas (Cicer arietinum)
Another
common name for chickpeas is garbanzo beans
Chickpeas,
in common with many other beans and legumes, should not be eaten raw as
they may make you sick.
The best
approach is to soak them for a day and then sprout them over several
days, changing the water on a daily basis.
Even then,
eating the sprouts may make you sick, and so are best cooked.
For this
reason I do not recommend chickpeas as part of a raw food diet. There
are plenty of other things to go for first.
See the
video clip "Can You Eat Beans & Legumes on the Raw Food Diet?" from
Natasha St Michael of Raw Radiant Health
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"In recent
years, Natasha started experimenting with different diets. When she
encountered the raw food diet three and a half years ago, she decided to
try it out for a couple of weeks. What had begun as an experiment,
turned into a lifestyle, and Natasha has been on a raw food diet ever
since!! "
