Ever wonder how to get enough calories on the raw food diet? The answer: fruit, and especially the banana.

Calories play an important role when trying to do this diet, and if you don’t understand the basics then you could easily stray into eating unhealthy foods. In fact, so many people who try this healthful way of life do not succeed simply because they do not understand the important role calories play.

When attempting to eat only raw foods many people tend to focus on the vegetables and greens (or worse yet, high fat foods like too many nuts, seeds, and avocados). Not to say that greens and veggies are not good, you actually do need them in order to thrive. However, compared to fruit, greens and other vegetables simply do not provide enough calories.

Bite for bite, fruit provides more calories than virtually all other low-fat raw vegan options, and the banana provides more calories per bite than most other readily available fruit.

For example, one large banana provides about 110 calories. It is very easy to make a meal of just bananas or mostly bananas. One can make a large smoothie made up of 5 bananas by themselves or mixed with other fruit (or greens) and get a solid 550 calorie meal.

The best thing about bananas is:

they are high in fiber, thus aiding in digestion and keeping your insides cleanthey provide simple sugars already in pre-digested form, meaning your body does not have to break the sugars down before your cells can have access to them. As soon as you eat a banana, your cells get instant access to the sugars in a bananathey are readily available and you can get them all year

Not only can you make an entire meal with bananas, but they serve as an easy, quick, and healthy snack as well.

Can you see how it then becomes easy to get your calories on raw foods?

Simply get most of your calories from fruit and do include sufficient amount of greens with a small amount of nuts, seeds, avocado, or other fat sources.

if you have not noticed by now, the above represents a healthy low-fat raw vegan diet. Sure it is easy to get calories when you include tons of nuts or avocados on your salad, but a high fat diet, raw or not, is not something you can thrive on.