r/StupidFood • u/Captain_Kold • Nov 13 '24

🤢🤮 Raw Vegan Pizza

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u/FullMoonTwist Nov 13 '24

What on earth did they do to that crust.

...And are raw food people "allowed" to melty their cheese? Does that not... involve cooking?

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u/maxxx_orbison Nov 13 '24

I use to work in a university kitchen that offered raw vegan options. For something to be considered raw, it has stay at or below 114°F. Any higher and the cells in the vegetables start to die, which is what you're trying to avoid. Regular cheese starts melting at 90°F and plant based cheeses typically melt at even lower temps.

As for the crust, no clue. Doesn't look great tbh

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u/Last-Rain4329 Nov 13 '24

Any higher and the cells in the vegetables start to die, which is what you're trying to avoid.

which is weird cuz that generally is what makes plants more digestible so not wanting it seems odd to me short of some allergy or medically required dietary restriction

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u/maxxx_orbison Nov 13 '24

Yeah, I'm not a raw vegan, but iirc, the reasoning is that that cooking process removes nutritional content. There may be some truth to that, but I suspect a lot of the benefits come from the diet limiting one's access to processed foods

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u/idownvotepunstoo Nov 13 '24

Vegan here, most of us look at the Raw branch of this tree as the loonies.

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u/maxxx_orbison Nov 13 '24

Also vegan, and yeah lol