We’re delighted to announce we’ve recently added Natasha’s Living Food products to the store. The chef behind these tasty and very dynamic products is none other than Natasha Czoper, who you will also find in the kitchen at the Ukiyo Bar on Exchequer Street in Dublin.
The Raw and Living foods movement is a diet based on naturally grown wild or organically and sustainably raised fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains.
The Raw and Living foods movement is a diet based on naturally grown wild or organically and sustainably raised fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains.
From Natasha:
My range of Raw and Living foods are completely free of animal products, and chemically processed or pasteurised ingredients. I use fair-traded ingredients wherever available, and I also use organic. I NEVER use flour, dairy, wheat, eggs, meat or fish, which is great for people with these allergies. I do use nuts, and I love to use superfoods.
Most importantly, during the preparation of raw food dishes, nothing is cooked, at least in the traditional sense. Raw foods contain live enzymes that aid digestion, which activate as they are consumed. Heating foods to temperatures beyond 118 F causes those enzymes to die, and destroys nutrients, minerals, amino acids and vitamins, and alters the natural metabolic structure of the food.
The beauty of raw foods is that the ingredients are very simple. Because nothing is processed, everything comes in its raw, natural state.
In my kitchen in Stoneybatter, you'll find sacks of seeds and nuts, fantastic raw cacao nibs and Lucama powder from Peru, hand-pressed coconut butter from the Philippines, agave nectar from Mexico, and with fruits and vegetables grown as locally as I can get them.
This week you’ll find Natasha's products on display on the table in front of the coffee machine. Please make sure to ask us any questions you have about the products, we're all ears!
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