JoAnn Betten <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>what do you all think about eating the more ancient kinds of grains, like
>spelt, amaranth, quinoa?  do you think they would be all right for a paleo
>person to eat?

First, the bit about them being ancient grains is marketing hype. It's
called marketing differentiation, and the spelt sellers are the sleaziest.
Wheat, barley and spelt all go back a long ways, and far more hybridization
took place 10,000 years ago then has taken place in the past few decades.
Spelt is so close to normal bread wheat (closer than durum wheat, used for
pasta, is to normal bread wheat) that it should be considered wheat for all
practical purposes. Quinoa is close to corn. I don't know where amaranth
stands. But none of these grains were in a Paleolithic diet. They were
introduced to the diet in the Neolithic era.

>also, what about sunchokes (Jerusalem artichokes)?

I know nothing about these. What are they?

Don.