raw foods: I bought a book on raw food recipes, and it calls for raw almonds. Where do you buy raw almonds at?|||You can buy raw almonds at most health food stores. The difference is, if you planted a raw almond, it would sprout and grow, because it contains live enzymes. If you planted a roasted almond, it would do nothing, as the enzymes would have been killed off by the roasting (any temp over 107 degrees will destroy enzymes. Raw food is awesome-has everything needed to digest itself-makes it easier on the body|||they taste different u buy them at the supermarket|||Raw nuts are shelled but not processed. Roasted nuts are baked and usually salted. A decent health food store has raw nuts. Raw peanuts are canned by Planters.|||like any nuts, roasted generally liberates a really good flavor. i am pretty sure you can get raw almond slivers at wall mart...close to the baking supplys.|||Please don't buy into the "raw" food fad. They try to claim that you get all these enzymes and food hormones from the raw food, but that's just bogus. By the time the food goes through the acid bath that exists in your stomach, all the proteins (which is what enzymes and hormones are) are denatured, which is also what happens during cooking. The only thing that cooking destroys that your body doesn't are a few vitamins that are heat labile (destroyed by heat).