On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Philip Thrift wrote:

> Not a new question; but I am interested in
> comments on the following.
>
> >From http://www.gardfoods.com/coffee/coffee.coffee.htm:
>
>   "Coffee beans were chewed raw for centuries in Ethiopia and Yemen.
>   Excavations in the Ethiopian highlands where coffee grows wild indicates
>   human gathers have been eating coffee berries over a 100,000 years. The
>   content. Being sweet, being nutritious, and seeds being in 100,000 year old
>   human faeces supports this theory."

I had no idea that coffee beans/berries were sweet, but if this
is correct then coffee surely passes the paleo test.  This would
be a fine example of a paleo food that nevertheless contains
substances that are toxic.

Todd Moody
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