Cooking kills the life in food. The immune system responds to lifeless food by realeasing white blood cells because it does not recognize the structure of the food and considers it as an infection in the body. Furthermore, our body has to invest a lot of energy to break down the nutrients from cooked food while it takes hardly any energy to digest living food.This is greatly because cooked food contains no more enzymes. The great thing about sprouts is that they are literally growing as you chew them, they are full of enzymes and their nutritional properties are intact. No other food could be fresher or more alive than sprouts.