{"id":7060,"date":"2014-11-26T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyecandypopper.com\/?p=7060"},"modified":"2017-06-08T18:43:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T22:43:06","slug":"easy-tips-how-to-make-your-own-healthy-trail-mix-and-why-raw-and-organic-is-better-vegan-raw-gluten-free-paleo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flexitariannutrition.com\/easy-tips-how-to-make-your-own-healthy-trail-mix-and-why-raw-and-organic-is-better-vegan-raw-gluten-free-paleo\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Your Own Healthy Trail Mix, and Why Raw and Organic is Better | Vegan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you ever made your own trail mix? Or do you buy them pre-made?<\/p>\n

I’ve been making my own trail mixes for a while now. It is after all, very easy to make, but there’s also another reason why it’s best to make it ourselves. \u00a0Let’s consider this, and then I’ll share with you my recipe to make your own healthy raw trail mix<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

Why avoid commercial trail mix?<\/h2>\n

I discovered a few years back about the added chemicals on dried fruits and trail mix. A lot of dried fruits have synthetic sulphites on them, a chemical that more and more people are increasingly becoming allergic to (although some foods naturally produce a small amount of sulphites, the kind that is used in prepared foods is synthetically made — i.e., NOT natural). Myself included.<\/p>\n

I always knew that my face would get red when I’d drink wine, especially white, but I’ve never paid too much attention, mostly because I’ve been eating from-scratch and healthy for so long, until last year when I was in Europe, and I wanted to eat those little cornichons<\/em> as a treat. I couldn’t find any organic ones, so I bought a small bottle of non-organic cornichons<\/em> at the grocery store to put in our sandwiches. All of the rest of the ingredients were organic and I had it in the days previous to that. Within 5 minutes after eating my sandwich, my face was red as a beet, swollen a bit, and burning!!! My face was on fire! I wondered why it was doing that, so I started going through all the ingredients of my sandwich, until I realized that the only new part of that sandwich were the baby pickles (cornichons<\/em>). I looked at the ingredient list, and there it was… the last ingredient: sulphites! Since this event, I’ve had a couple of other food-related allergic reactions with other ingredients that contained sulphites.<\/p>\n

Also, unless you’re buying organic trail mix, these would be made with nuts that have been sprayed with pesticides\/herbicides, etc. That is toxic for us and is also killing the bees (almonds grown in California are one of the worst culprits for that), and, unless these nuts come from outside of the U.S., they would’ve been irradiated. In case you’re not familiar, irradiation is like pasteurization, they heat the food to a high temperature that makes them sterile. All the nutrients are dead. Irradiated almonds cannot be sprouted. On top of irradiation, most of the commercial trail mixes have roasted nuts. Just in case if there were any nutrients or enzymes left in the nuts, they are now dead, plus roasted nuts go rancid pretty fast, so we end up eating nutrient-deficient and rancid oil nuts. Not very appealing and definitely not as healthy as eating raw organic nuts. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Some other foods and drinks which contain sulphites:<\/h2>\n