Interesting comments. Thanks.


> Cordain's team emphasized: "By and large, plant-food items with the
> greatest ratio of energy capture to energy expenditure would have
> provided
> most of the daily plant-food energy of world-wide hunter-gatherers."
> In
> other words, they preferred fruits, roots, tubers, and bulbs to leaves
> and
> other low carbohydrate plants by a wide margin.

I suspect the leafy low carb plants were grazed as people went about
their daily business. I do that when I am outside. I see some wild
plant I know is ok to eat, and I pluck a leaf or two off to chew on.
While doing my garden I might eat a dozen bites of four or five weeds
that I know are good. They don't provide much or any energy I suppose,
but I enjoy the flavors. A man out hunting might eat quite a lot of
salad over the course of a day this way, just casually nibbling plants
as he walked along the game trails.