I have received several e-mails from people asking if it’s okay to drink hot tea while on a 100% raw food diet. Here is Victoria’s answer from a past teleconference.

VICTORIA: I’d like to say that hot tea is okay because it doesn’t trigger your appetite for cooked foods or any food addictions, but you wouldn’t want to drink a lot of it because you only want to consume highly nutritious substances. We’ve been malnourished for generations and we don’t want to waste any energy on our digestive tracts. We only want high quality nutritious food in there. Teas are usually not of high quality. They have bleach in them and outdated herbs, although you could collect the herbs yourself. When you make tea, you boil out the nutrition. They are okay, but not the most nutritious. What Ann Wigmore did was make “Sun Teas,” where she would collect herbs herself, and put them in cold water or outside in the sunshine for five or six hours. It makes for nice, flavored water.