United States organic and conventional almonds are required to be pasteurized by law. This means that even almonds that are labeled "raw" are not truly raw.
Organic almonds are a bit better in that they are flash pasteurized with hot steam for a short duration, and many of these almonds are shown to still be viable enough to sprout!
Still, if you really want to find truly raw organic almonds, here are 3 ways:
1) Get truly raw organic almonds directly from the farm (in other words, no shipping). Organic Pastures offers this and Azure Standard offers to "deliver" (rather than ship) to you:
https://www.azurestandard.com/shop/product/3313/?hc_location=ufi
2) Get truly raw organic almonds from another country. A search on amazon yields some choices: http://amzn.to/1UpxxSW
3) Get truly raw organic almonds from a food co-op that sources almonds from #1 or #2 above.
We hope this helps!
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