I don't understand raw food diet-sprouting?

Question

I don't really understand how sprouting works. I know how it's done, but do you eat the sprouts and not the bean/nut? Or does the bean/nut go away and all thats left is the sprouts? Or do you just need to sprout the bean/nut, then eat whatever is there...I really don't get it.

Like how do you make hummus when all you have is sprouts? You need chickpeas for that, not sprouts from chickpeas.

Please open my eyes.

Answer 1

When you sprout a bean or seed, you still have the actual bean/seed there is just a little baby stem coming out the side of it. Usuall you just eat the whole thing, bean and all, but you can sprout things like sunflowers so that the sprouted parts grow long and then you can just eat the sprout without the seed. Eventually, the bean/seed part would spit open enough to fall off, but that would take a couple weeks of sprouting. Any recipe made from a sprouted bean usually refers to the whole raw bean, sprout and all.

hummus is made from the actual chickpea, not the sprout, although I'm sure you could adapt it somehow to include the sprouted ones.

Answer 2

What LuLu said, but additionally:

Yes, raw hummus uses the sprouted chickpeas as you would cooked chickpeas (that is, puree with some raw tahini, garlic, lemon juice).  Raw hummus, in my experience, isn't nearly as creamy as normal hummus, and the liquid tends to separate more quickly, but the taste is very good.

Answer 3

People on a raw food diet eat more then just sprouts. I'd suggest seeing what your local library has on raw food diets. Getting a couple books at your local book store would help too.