How much should you eat raw?

[PrivateLarry]

How much of your diet should be raw fruits and vegetables only? To maximize physical and mental health and well being?

Fully raw vegan

3/4 raw food diet

Half raw food diet

1/4 raw food diet

Eat all of your foods cooked.

[Levin]

You're at risk of over-thinking this, instead of following a common sense approach. You're placing arbitrary mind-based figures on what you should or should not eat, which is silly. Personally, I think a good mixture is about right. According to Daoist principles, your body is in a state of flux, so you should eat according to what is right for you. You can intuit what is right for you, for a start. For example, I ate soup today, I desired soup, but I haven't eaten it in a few months. My body desired it precisely because I hadn't eaten it for a while, and I haven't been eating much veg over the past few weeks. Your body obviously naturally wants a mixture of foods, if you're just fixated on a few, you're probably not getting all the nutrients you need. So that's why you should follow your desire (provided you can tap into it, which most people seem unable to do). Secondly, because of aforementioned flux, and the individual needs of every person, you should eat depending on what *you* need. People that are too yin (passive, slow, cold, etc) will need more warming foods (including foods that have been cooked for longer), whereas those are are too yang (with the reverse qualities), will need more cooling and rawer foods, such as green vegetables, etc, and less strong tastes. Scientific approach wants to tell you in definite terms, what you should or should not do, which really is not wholly applicable to the *art* of eating healthfully.

[CourtJester]

As much as you can but then there's also exceptions (ex: diabetic people can't eat that much fruits-still sugar)

[Luv2BRealExotic13]

Seeing some veggies can't be consumed without being cooked. Cruciferous veggies are better to eat raw or cook them only till they're their brighter version of their color. Better yet get a vitamix juicer blender then you wouldn't have to worry so much about that. If you go vegan you need to eat a lot of fermented food bc there's certain vitamins not found in raw fruits and veggies, like b12, you'd have to get supplements fermented food or just keep some sort of meat protein in your diet.

[LittleSally]

I eat half of my vegetables daily raw and half cooked. Of course I eat fruits raw...
Sounds about right to me.

[NovemberJoseph]

I eat NO vegetables besides potatoes.

All my micronutrients I can get from multivitamins yo. I eat meat on the daily.