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Errr... unfortunately I can only find this anecdotal source where it's claimed
that the sugar content is down to less than half that of the wild dates.
http://beyondveg.com/billings-t/fruit-table/wild-cultiv-fruit-1a.shtml
The website itself of course is arguing against the idea of fruit being a great
source of nutrients... really it's not a well-liked site and it just trying to make
fun of every kind of diet. Also people are bound to be attracted to nutritious,
healthy ones as well, I personally prefer the sourer ones.
There is not much reason humans would prefer the sugar-laden ones. Maybe a
little bit, but remember that it's only in the past 50 years or so we really got
going in artificial selection. Artificial selection itself has been around since the
dawn of mankind: "I don't like these apples, I'll take the sweeter ones over
there".... and that seed was propagated. So sure, we may have come across
particularly sweet fruit (again, IF that, because I'm not so sure we did select
the most sugary ones, humans are also attracted to nutritious ones!!!!)... but
eating nearly all fruit you're still living life extremely close to your ancestors. I
would forget about this "artificial selection" and the farcical, contemptable
comparison with PROCESSED sugar, it's the pesticides and agricultural
treatment that warrant much more attention.
If this is such a major issue, then maybe I'll go to Africa myself, into an
unhabited area and pick the fruits there myself. I doubt they'll be much if any
different (except maybe less nutritious). Then grow those seeds organically
year after year!!!!
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:50:41 -0700, Andrea Hughett <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>--- On Wed, 7/1/09, Padraig Hogan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Many fruits
>> such as dates have far less sugar than their wild
>> counterparts,
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>Can you provide some data to support this?
>
>Andrea
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