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Thanks for the reply Eva. 

It is indeed quite confusing the whole seed 'thing'... nuts are seeds too yet most paleo eaters do not question their suitability as food... Sally Fallon of the Weston A. Price institute recommends soaking nuts [minimal sprouting] to de-activate the phytates and other anti-nutrients, then dehydrating them at very low temperatures prior to consumption... 

<<Now tomatoes are in fact a fruit even if we have learnt to think about them as being veggies.>> 

Yes tomatoes are fruits but so are courgettes [zucchini] and most other so-called vegetables... 'Vegetables' is a horticultural term... 

Botanically speaking, 'edibles' are either 'fruits' - the swollen ovary of a plant, with seeds inside or outside [strawberries]... other edible plant parts are - tubers/roots, stems [rhubarb, celery etc.] and leaves [spinach, lettuce etc.] 

<< Isn't it strange that the people who started agriculture started to grow the worst seeds possible? Like wheat. Why didn't they choose another one that was less damaging?>> 

They probably chose what was growing wild around them... since it was it the near east, they picked wheat and barley... however... present day wheat [and probably other grains] bear very little resemblance to the first cultivated strains... I've read that the first cultivated wheat contained only about 5% gluten..!... it's closer to 50% now... they had no baking yeast so most wheat and barley was eaten either as very weak 'beer' - fermented thin gruel - or as sourdough flat bread... both methods help eliminate phytates in grains... 

Dedy

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