Thanks for your input.  That is interesting that primitive people could
preserve fruit.  It is also true, as you have said, that fruit can come into
ripeness for much of the year.  Still, I think that to eat true Paleo, one
would eat more wild type fruits that are generally smaller, not so sweet,
and relatively infrequent..............at least in comparison to what I
would imagine some eating today on this diet:  lots of big ripe fruit, fruit
juice in the morning for breakfast, etc.  I personally don't eat much fruit
because my blood sugar stays in range better when I don't eat much and
instead eat vegetables.

P
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esben Grønborg Brun" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2001 10:56 AM
Subject: Sv: [P-F] Fruits


Paul Getty  wrote on Friday, December 21, 2001 1:31 PM


> The trouble with one point you made, not pruning fruit trees, is that
these
> are not natural trees anyway, but genetically changed trees that evolved
to
> meet our needs.  Most fruit trees are not that healthy without some work
> from man.
-----

This varies much with the type of fruit, and the particular sort.
Some apples are almost impossible to grow without herbicides -  others are
easy.
Even organically grown apples , are very often sprayed with copper-sulphate
,
as this is allowed en many countries (for organic fruit) - not in Denmark
though.
A few sorts of apples can be grown totally without herbicides.


>  They have evolved ridiculously large and sweet and soft fruits

I dont like very sweet fruit as much any longer, after eating paleo for some
time.
In fact I sometimes likes quite sour fruits  - they kind of "balances"
fatty dishes.
I have recently been eating the fruits from a wild apple tree  -
after some frost they taste good (a little sweeter then before the frost)
-  somewhat sour, and less watery than "normal apples".


> Fruit should, in real Paleo diets, be a very small, occasional thing.

I dont agree !

For almost  half of the year there are (naturally occurring) fruits in
Denmark -
and this is a cool , temperate climate.  In warmer climates there would
naturally be fruits
much of the year (for example in California).    Then there is dried
ruit  -  this much be
an ancient invention  (raisins dry naturally).   Paleo-preservation methods
fruit exist:
The inuit  stored berries in  seal-blubber ,  lingon-berries (cranberries?)
can be stored
in a cool place as they are , because they naturally contain a preserving
chemical.
And the indians mixed (dried?) fruit in the pemmican.


Esben