| Within fruit some thoughts can be added:
| 1.) commercial fruit has been modified (by selection) to
be
| sweeter as the wildlife variant.
| In this process some ratios of micronutrients
| may have changed. For example big bananas as listed in
USDA contain
| not enough thiamin to burn the carbs in it
| (hopefully the smaller and more natural ones do).


The smaller the fruit the more primitive.
Modern growing methods make for water logged/larger
fruits and vegetables. Less nutient dense.

Also never buy *seedless* varieties. The closer to nature
fruits have seeds. I refuse to eat seedless watermelon.



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----- Original Message -----
From: Amadeus Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 1999 6:04 AM
Subject: [P-F] Diet classes (was: tomato. Ursus americanus


| Ben Balzer wrote:
|
| >I think the real point is that tomatoes are fruit- the
seeds are not
| >meant to be eaten, but the flesh is. ...
| >Simply stated, paleolithic diet classes are fruit, edible
leaves (eg
| >lettuce), edible roots, berries, meat and fish.
|
| I think yes, it's true, that it's well worth thinking
about that diet
| classes, and fruit is the best because of its symbiontic
| living with us.
| You expressed it very clear.
|
| Within fruit some thoughts can be added:
| 1.) commercial fruit has been modified (by selection) to
be
| sweeter as the wildlife variant.
| In this process some ratios of micronutrients
| may have changed. For example big bananas as listed in
USDA contain
| not enough thiamin to burn the carbs in it
| (hopefully the smaller and more natural ones do).
|
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