Any advocate of a raw food diet will likely tell you that switching to uncooked meals helps to supercharge health and wellbeing, with anecdotal benefits including sustained weight loss, better cholesterol levels and clearer skin. The premise is that cooking food destroys valuable nutrients, but stripping back your diet to eat foods the way nature intended gives you more bang for your buck, nutritionally speaking.
We’ve seen raw food trends come and go - like the restrictive ‘raw till 4’ fad, which involved eating uncooked food (mainly fruits and greens) during the day before switching to a high carb plant-based evening meal, to flexitarian diets (semi-vegetarian diets that include raw foods as part of the day-to-day eating style). One of the most popular raw food trends knocking about on social media right now is centred around unpasteurised milk. The #rawmilk hashtag has racked up over 226,000 posts on Instagram, with health influencers extolling a string of cure-all claims. But is it always safe? Here are the foods to watch out for.
