Thanks for the excellent article, Jean-Louis!

Let me add one thing, if I may:

CLAIM:
Anything heated above 118 deg. F is "cooked" and dead, because the enzymes
are "killed".

COMMENT:
Let me quote from "The Germination of Seeds", 4th ed., A.M. Mayer and A.
Poljakoff-Mayber; Pergamon Press, pg. 53:

"High temperatures up to about 90 deg. C are tolerated by many seeds such as
radish, turnip and poppy, as shown by David (1936) who studied oil-
containing seeds. Above 90 deg C the viability of seeds is greatly lowered."

Thus we see that some seeds can be heated above the temperatures where enzymes
"die", and even to the point that the seeds are "leukocytic", and yet the
seeds STILL SPROUT!  What this means is that:
* enzymes are not the "life force"
* the rawist obsession with enzymes is misplaced
* the rawist obsession with leukocytes is probably misplaced as well.

Again, thanks for an interesting, factual post!

Tom Billings
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