The thing with a vegan (especially raw) diet is...

Not only do your poops happen like they were engineered by a Japanese car company, they smell... vaguely plant-like.

@rl_dane

That sounds like a raw thing; the process of cooking improves your body's ability extract nutrients from food, so it follows naturally that when your body is extracting less value, it produces more waste.

I, at least, when eating vegan (non-raw) have not had this issue.

@amin @rl_dane Although, raw food tends to have more vitamins and stuff. There's no free lunch

@OpenComputeDesign @rl_dane

Most vitamins and minerals don't seem to be significantly affected, but I guess if you have a deficiency of folic acid? https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400525/Data/retn/retn06.pdf

Just judging that from a brief look over the data; I'd have to do more in-depth analysis to be sure.

@amin @rl_dane I'm not an expert personally, I just know my mom and brother have mentioned eating raw rubarb, and iirc carrots and tomatoes? give you more vitimins than eating cooked

@OpenComputeDesign @rl_dane

Sure, very likely. RL's currently eating only raw food, though.

Reality Check: 5 Risks of a Raw Vegan Diet

Misconceptions of the philosophy of the raw vegan diet include the claim that raw foods are detoxifying and contain more "life energy"

Scientific American

@OpenComputeDesign @rl_dane

"But cooking breaks apart fibers and cellular walls to release nutrients that otherwise would be unavailable from the same raw food. Cooking tomatoes, for example, increases by five-fold the bioavailability of the antioxidant lycopene. Similarly, cooking carrots makes the beta-carotene they contain more available for the body to absorb."

@OpenComputeDesign @rl_dane

The conclusion of the article in terms of the nutritious value of vegetables appears to be that you should be mixing cooked/uncooked to get everything you need.

@amin @rl_dane Darn it, how dare the solution always be "It depends, probably somewhere in the middle"!!!