"Raw diet" usually just means eating food close to its natural state — uncooked, unprocessed, nothing added. It's not a single fixed plan, and it doesn't come with a weight number attached. Before buying into any version of it, it helps to know what you're actually looking for at the shop.
Fresh fruit and vegetables are the obvious raw foods. Nuts and seeds count too, as long as they're not roasted or salted. Dried fruit sits in a grey area — the drying is a form of processing, but a plain sun-dried date or fig with nothing added still fits most raw-food definitions better than anything from a packet with a five-line ingredient list.
That's the part worth checking on a label: one ingredient, or ten? A bag of Piarom dates should say "dates" and nothing else. If a dried-fruit product lists added sugar, oil, or preservatives, it's stopped being a raw food regardless of what the front of the pack claims.
Texture is a useful raw-food clue on its own. A date that's gone slightly stiff and pale has usually been stored too long or too dry; one that's dark, glossy and a little wrinkled at the skin has kept its natural moisture. That's not a nutrition fact, it's just what a fresh piece of fruit looks like versus an old one, raw or not.
If you're building a raw-food shelf, start with what needs no prep at all: a bowl of nuts, a bag of dates, whatever fruit is in season. The fewer steps between the farm and your plate, the less room there is for anything to be added along the way.