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Yeah. But humans haven't had fresh fruit available all year round until recently. Similarly, there was never a wide range of foods available. I'm not sure we've
by abainbridge 10y ago
Yeah. But humans haven't had fresh fruit available all year round until recently. Similarly, there was never a wide range of foods available. I'm not sure we've got enough evidence to say that changing our diet to include lots of fruit and a wide variety of foods is safe. The encouragement to do this is coming from large governing bodies.
I'm off to eat nothing but turnips for a year and get scurvy :-)
- Zelphyr 10y agoGood point. Does anyone know if there have been any studies on only eating in-season fruits and vegetables and how the body reacts?
- sliverstorm 10y agoThe original solution was simply preservation. Drying, canning, pickling, etc.
- jtmarmon 10y agonot to mention most fruits have been selectively bred/genetically engineered to have much higher sugar content than they did when we evolved to eat them seasonally
- abainbridge 10y agoIndeed. And Food Unwrapped (UK TV programme) explained how the supermarkets don't need to say how much sugar is in those ultra-sweet Piccolo tomatoes because they vary and it's impractical to measure. In fact, it's worse than that because mostly they do display the sugar content in the Nutrition Information but it was found to always be a huge underestimate (like 3x lower than the real value). Still, they're much nicer than the old tomatoes. At least I'll die happy. There are too many humans in the world anyhow.
- undersuit 10y ago>Yeah. But humans haven't had fresh fruit available all year round until recently. Which humans? There are many tropical regions where fruit is available year round.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> But humans haven't had fresh fruit available all year round until recently. Certain groups like Europeans haven't, but humans have lived in lots of places that have year-round fresh fruit for quite a long time.