“Happy, Healthy and… Happy… Love it! It has pumpkin seeds, almonds,apples, pecans, dates, walnuts, raisins, buckwheat, agave, lemon, lime, vanilla, orange, cinnamon, Celtic sea salt. All dehydrated into a wonderfully healthy raw treat. YUM!”

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By soaking the nuts (which really are seeds) and seeds in water, the ‘bulky’ nutrients – fats, proteins and carbohydrates, get broken down into their component parts – essential fatty acids, amino acids and sugars, which have different calorie values. The water actually wakes up them up and prepares the seeds to grow into new plants. As they awaken, these seeds break down the ‘big’ fats, proteins and carbohydrates inside into the smaller essential fatty acids, amino acids and sugars that can then be transported throughout the germinating seed to build a new plant. When a plant is at the beginning of its growth cycle, it ‘properly prepares’ itself for its own growth. This is ideal because it translates into optimized nutrition for us: the seeds are digestible and user-friendly to our bodies.

It’s at this crucial point that we add our sprouted ingredients into the gRAWnola mix with their nutrient levels at their peak availability and potency. It’s just like catching a perfectly sun-ripened peach when its ready to fall off the tree. The sweet juicy peach not only feeds our body but nourishes us with pleasure which, believe it or not, allows our whole body to do its different jobs better. While all this growing, peaking and falling is going on, it’s important to acknowledge and appreciate the incredible and delicious gift that these little living organisms are giving us.

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Our body isn’t quite sure what to do with these recently synthesized and oft-cleverly renamed ingredients. Because they are unfamiliar, the body sets them aside to deal with later or protects itself by padding those unfamiliar ingredients inside us with fat, which are to those unwanted calories and weight.

Pure properly prepared foods™ with their increased nutrient content actually has fewer, but more nutrient-rich calories so there is less waste for the body to handle and dispose of, leaving you with more power and greater satisfaction.

The USDA answer is incomplete because no one has really clarified the difference between calories in foods that are highly processed or properly prepared™.

The complete answer requires some background. The calories in our grawnola are unusual because of the way we prepare our ingredients to make them ready for the body. Since the body is familiar with these nutrients as opposed to highly-processed food calories, weight questions, and calorie concerns need to be addressed differently. grawnola ingredients are body ready™ which means that are prepared in a way the body can digest, assimilate and fuel evolution. We only use pure and unprocessed ingredients which are enhanced through proper preparation so that all the nutrients – protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals and enzymes – are optimized and available to you.

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