Ok, I guess there's not too strong a consensus as to what test should be applied to determine if a certain food is paleo. Everything I've read so far seems to imply that the effect of a food on blood sugar is important in paleo-dieting. Also, even if buckwheat groats pass the phytogenetic test, they certainly fail the "naked with a stick" test, right? And even if they could be gathered and eaten in the wild, would the intense processing required to make a fruit into a flake (even a flake-susceptible fruit such as a buckwheat groat) by its own nature make a food non-paleo? I consider myself on the paleo diet, and have lost just tons of weight, feel better, blood pressure dropped, many symptoms have ceased, clearer mind, and so on (and on -- yes, I will NEVER go back, believe me), but all this time I've been eating yams (as in sweet-potatoes, not true yams) -- didn't realize they were non paleo until I read Ray Audette's "Neanderthin". I have cut them out, even though they didn't seem to bother me (but I do think that those last 5 lbs. I want to lose aren't going anywhere until I cut the yams). Tell me, is it generally known which "rules of paleo" are most important, to least important? Erik >From: Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Paleolithic Eating Support List <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: [P-F] Buckwheat a FRUIT? >Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:29:45 -0500 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >From [log in to unmask] Fri Nov 12 11:30:51 1999 >Received: from [149.68.1.24] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id >MHotMailB9F5B5EA0017D82197CA954401180A310; Fri Nov 12 11:30:51 1999 >Received: from maelstrom.stjohns.edu (149.68.1.24) by maelstrom.stjohns.edu >(LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; >Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:30:33 -0500 >Received: from MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU by MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU >(LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) with spool id 6442656 for >[log in to unmask]; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:30:30 -0400 >Received: from mailhost.sju.edu (129.68.113.50) by maelstrom.stjohns.edu >(LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id ><[log in to unmask]>; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:30:14 >-0500 >Received: from polaris (polaris [129.68.113.8]) by mailhost.sju.edu > (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA10741 for ><[log in to unmask]>; Fri, 12 Nov 1999 14:29:45 -0500 >(EST) >X-Sender: tmoody@polaris >Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991112135437.22703C-100000@polaris> >Sender: Paleolithic Eating Support List ><[log in to unmask]> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> > >On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Erik Hill wrote: > > > www.thebirkettmills.com makes the claim that buckwheat (groats) is/are > > actually a FRUIT. I realize that sufficient processing (such as >required to > > make it into the flakes and stuff that www.thebirkettmills.com sells) >would > > still mean it's not-paleo -- but is this true? Is buckwheat a fruit? > >That is what I have read on more than one occasion, and the same >applies to quinoa. > >Incidentally, according to the phylogenetic approach to paleo >that some people prefer, these foods would be considered paleo, >since they are members of a phylogenetic category that comprises >mostly paleo foods. > >Todd Moody >[log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com