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How to include more raw food in your diet

 Raw foods contain around a third more vitamins and minerals than cooked foods. Including more raw food is your diet can give your system a nutritional boost, give your gums a great workout and can even help you lose weight.

1. SMOOTHIES
Smoothies - made from fresh fruit and low-fat yoghurt - are a cunning way to get plenty of fruit into your system without realising it! Many soft exotic fruits including peaches and mangoes, papaya and pineapple work well in the blender to create a great low-fat alternative to milkshakes.

Leslie Kenton, author of The Raw Energy Bible says: 'Smoothies are especially good when blended with plain yoghurt, which give them the texture of milk shakes with a low fat content.'

2. SALADS
Salads are the ultimate raw meal and they don't have to be overloaded with limp-looking cucumber, tomatoes and lettuce. Add instant appeal by grating more exotic vegetables such as sweet potato, artichokes and finely chopped broccoli into your salad.

Eating a salad every day is also an ideal way of getting your five daily portions of fruit and veg because the dish is made by tossing a selection of vegetables together.

Try experimenting with vegetables of different texture, flavour and colour to turn a boring salad into a colourful creation. You can also add fruit such as apple and pear to give your salad a tangy flavour and help keep it interesting.

For more ideas on spicing up your salad, see our good salad guide by clicking on the link in the blue box above.

When juicing vegetables or fruit, leave as much of the white pith as you like to get the full benefit of the bioflavonoids within - powerful plant-based anti-oxidants - which help the body to absorb vitamin C. They also help strengthen the capillaries in the body, leading to better circulation and smoother, more beautiful skin.

But be aware that you can't get all your nutrients from juicing as it removes the fibre from fruit and vegetables.

To clean the skin of fruit and vegetables before juicing, add one cupful of cider apple vinegar to ten cupfuls of water. Drink your juice as quickly as possible: the nutrients in raw juice are highly volatile and will begin to deteriorate as soon as they are in contact with fresh air.

To find more ideas on juicing, click on the link in the blue box above.

CHILLED SOUPS
Although we tend to associate hearty soups with comfort food in winter, chilled soups in summer make an ideal summer dish. Soups such as gazpacho - a traditional Spanish dish containing raw tomatoes, carrots, peppers and celery - or chilled cucumber soup combining cucumber and mint - often contain three or four different vegetables and are brimming with vitamins and minerals.

Even better, they contain high levels of fluid which is important when it's hot. 'People forget their fluid requirements go up when it's hot and humid,' says nutritionist Jane Griffin. 'On average, people secrete up to one litre of sweat more in summer compared to cooler days, so soup is the perfect way to top up your fluid levels.'

5. CRUDITES
Crudites are the perfect mid-morning snack or raw food to graze on throughout the afternoon as they are packed with vitamins and minerals. Because they are uncooked, they tend to contain higher water levels which make them more filling than their cooked variety.

Typical crudites are vitamin-C rich peppers and carrots containing beta carotene, which boosts immunity.