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It's not demonstrative - food from higher up the pyramid is actually denser in nutrients and taste vastly better in my mind (we're talking beef vs lentils, not
by FredPret 3y ago
It's not demonstrative - food from higher up the pyramid is actually denser in nutrients and taste vastly better in my mind (we're talking beef vs lentils, not plankton vs lion).
- Unconstrained 3y ago... But if they are higher up the food chain they also accumulate far, far higher levels of heavy metals. This is true for meats and fish.
- bell-cot 3y agoTrue, and I vaguely recall a case or few where people showed off their rich tastes (for swordfish steaks, etc.) until their nerves & muscles didn't particularly work together. But, back during the formative millennia of human nature, that wasn't a problem.
- AlexandrB 3y agoPlenty of counterexamples. I think scallops are probably the best tasting seafood if not one of the best tasting foods period and they're filter feeders. Shrimp is pretty good as well. Meanwhile, bear tastes pretty bad.
- FredPret 3y agoI quite like bear - tastes like a beefier beef. Depends on what the bear ate.
- bell-cot 3y agoStatistically true. But are herring, pigeons, and rabbits meaningfully less nutrition-dense than large/dangerous/brag-worthy game?