Raw foods recipes may seem intimidating to you at first, but they are actually quite simple. Let’s take a look at some of the foods you can enjoy on a raw diet.

Fruit - obviously, fruit can make a tasty monomeal for breakfast lunch or dinner. Fruits can be divided in sweet fruits (tropical fruits, persimmons, sweet grapes), acid fruits (lemons, citrus), sub-acid fruits (apples, pears, tart grapes) and fatty fruits (avocados, durian). Melons constitute a separate category of fruits.

But did you know that combining foods properly in raw foods recipes can affect your health?Sweet fruits are to be eaten with other varieties of sweet fruits only or with sub-acid fruits. Don’t eat acid fruit with anything other than celery and lettuce. Avocados and olives should be eaten with non-starchy vegetables. Melons should be eaten alone or not eaten at all.

Vegtables - Some of the vegetable categories are non-starchy greens (spinach, cabbage), fruit vegetables (cucumbers, tomatoes) and root vegetables (carrots, celeriac). Another category of vegetables includes lettuce and celery. Veggies can be mixed together as salad, sliced and rolled into lettuce wraps or veggie sushi, or juiced and drank.

Nuts and seeds - should be eaten to give proper fat and protein content to the body. Some of my favorites include almonds, walnuts, sunflower and pumpkin seeds.

Most plant foods are used in the raw foods diet although some avoid starchy tubers like potatoes or gluten heavy grains like wheat in their raw food recipes. This is a personal choice. There are many cookbooks out there with extensive directions as to how to prepare these foods.
Also, here are a few combinations that you should try to avoid like starch and acid (tomato and potato), protein and protein (avocadoes and nuts), sweets and starch (maple syrup and rice). Think about these combinations when you are developing your own raw food recipes.