le pie HOT!

I've posted Jason's recipe for le pie HOT! on the recipes site. It really is very good. Someone commented that using lemon juice to "cook" or soften the apple slices doesn't seem to keep with the spirit of the raw foods movement. It made me wonder if blending fruit or grinding nuts also go against the idea of keeping foods whole. After all, that's a very basic form of processing food. But apparently, the main belief of the raw foods movement is that foods not be heated to 118 degrees because that temperature degrades certain enzymes found naturally in foods to aid digestion. Fewer natual enzymes means the body needs to use more of its own metabolic enzymes to digest food, leading to a loss of energy. I'm not sure how the theories behind the raw vegan diet measure up to scientific scrutiny. I keep hearing the term "enzymes" but have yet to come across exactly what type of enzymes people are talking about. People who stick to a raw vegan diet are commendable though.