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It’s not that we can’t eat it, it’s that in a paleolithic setting we would not have been able to eat banana every day.

• triyambakam 4y ago
  I find that hard to believe. Humans don't make their own vitamin C which is a strong case for our need to eat fruit. A banana also barely has fifteen percent of the daily requirements for vitamin C. This study [1] finds that humans 200,000 years ago consumed up to 600mg a day of vitamin C - that's a lot of fruit. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14527634/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14527634/
  • eurasiantiger 4y ago
    Perhaps it was not all from fruit? Early humans may have been eager to sever vegetables from their vines.
  • funcDropShadow 4y ago
    Animal meat can also contain vitamin C. There isn't much in the muscles, but other organs contain more of it. When considering whether paleolithic humans could survive with small amounts of fruits and vegetables only, we have to consider that they probably ate almost all of the animals they hunted. I.e. including organs, skin, and other less appealing parts. Nowadays, we mostly eat muscles. Thereby, we don't get the same composition of nutrients from meat than we used to.