Raw food, considered at the same time a way of rediscovering and purifying one’s own person, is based on the consumption of raw vegetables and fruits, nuts and oily seeds. Because the activities of enzymes are reduced when food is cooked, heat-processed food cannot provide the desired benefits in digestion or use. It changes the pH balance of food and makes it more acidic, turns easily absorbed minerals into inorganic minerals, difficult to absorb, destroys most vitamins.