Green Leaves Should be Part of Your Raw Food Diet
Green Leaves Should be Part of Your Raw Food Diet
By Viola Woolcott
Green leaves contain a good amount of top quality protein. On a weighing basis, dry leaves are round about 25% protein.
Most seeds storage proteins tend to be short of one or more essential amino acid, green leaves are very high in all of these substances and that is in actual fact why the leaf protein is in the form of enzymes. Enzymes are responsible for respiration, photosynthesis, digestion etc. Enzymes are the biological catalyst (chemical reaction where substances are known to interact to create a new substances) which speed up and direct biochemical reactions. In the process of photosynthesis these many enzymes work with that wonderful chlorophyll molecule.
Personally I would not recommend using green leaves as your only supply of protein, but of course the protein content is available and cannot be ignored.
The enzymes in raw leaves as well as in other raw plant foods don’t only provide us with protein, they help us digesting the particular food in which it is found and they are also very beneficial for the well being of the body.
Unlike many other forms of protein, leaf protein is soluble and therefore makes it easily digestible.
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Filed under: Health and Diet on December 8th, 2007
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