New organic paleo bar inspired by the ancient Mayan diet

[GetNativ]

Hey everyone, Im not sure if I am allowed to post about this so I will tread lightly until I know for sure.   I created a new paleo bar that uses only organic ingredients that were considered sacred by the ancient Mayans.

I am doing a Kickstarter campaign about it within a few weeks and wanted to see if I could share it here.  If so I'd love to tell you guys a lot more about it.

Thanks!

Diego

[Projectile Vomit]

Hi Diego, as a general rule spam posts here are deleted, and their posters banned. Just so you know.

This is a RAW paleo diet forum, so any sort of processed food - like what it appears you're trying to sell - is typically frowned upon.

[GetNativ]

Thanks Eric.  Its a mostly raw bar besides the toasted pumpkin seeds and popped amaranth seeds.  Nothing processed.

Anyway if its frowned upon I wont post it then. 

[Projectile Vomit]

Cooking is a process. Cooked food is thus necessarily processed food. Since your bar contains cooked foods it contains processed foods, and therefore is a processed food. Not sure how you rationalize it as being Paleo, given that the Mayan empire didn't exist during the Paleolithic era...

[GetNativ]

Ok I see, toasting seeds is not RAW. 

The bar is Paleo because of its ingredients.  They were available for early humans to eat way before the Mayans, the Mayan's are only credited with having the earliest recorded use of them on a large scale. 

I see that it does not belong here so I will post no more on this subject, sorry.   

[Inger]

Toasted seeds is pretty much poison    I would never eat your bar 

[goodsamaritan]

GetNativ, we are a tough forum.

Probably the toughest paleo diet forum in the world

We are the RAW paleo diet forum.

[JeuneKoq]

^Truth is tough   

[GetNativ]

I understand.  I didn't want to spam at all, that's why I asked.

Thanks

[PaleoPhil]

No harm, no foul.

I do find it puzzling that so many people seem to regard cooking as not processing. Why would refining be considered processing, but not cooking?

Sure, different forms of processing do differ in how bad they are and there are traditional forms of processing that go back millions of years (such as cutting meat with a sharp stone or cracking open a nut with a stone), so I get that, it's just odd that some forms of processing aren't regarded by many as processing, even when they involve using very high temperatures in factories (not trying to imply that that's the case here, I've just seen that elsewhere).

I've even seen a LC uber-coctivore claim that high-heated crispy-fried bacon and factory-produced high-heat pasteurized and churned butter are not processed, but raw home-made food starch, prepared simply by grating, soaking and separating, is.  They are both types of processing and the heat-blasted food is probably more processed in the sense of the changes it imparts on the food molecules.