can I soak roasted sunflower seeds?

[caedmyn]

I want to try making some sunflower seed butter--can I just use roasted sunflower seeds and soak them, or does the seed need to be raw when it is soaked? It'd be nice to use already roasted seeds and not have to go to the extra trouble of roasting raw seeds. (I tried making sunflower seed butter with raw soaked seeds once and it didn't taste very good, so I'm thinking they need to be roasted to taste halfways decent.)

[NoTiGG]

no this would not work... the germinating process is what helps release the anti nutrients.... Phytic acid gets released by soaking the seeds into the soak water but heating also destroys it as well.... I would not soak them