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@ Mike Dilger ☑️
2025-06-01 04:44:54
The average human gets 20% of their calories from wheat.
another 16% from rice
another 13% from maize
So far all starches! And that is HALF the diet!
Imagine a plate, and half of it is wheat, rice, and maize. Every meal like that. Every person like that. Wow.
another 8% from soybeans
another 5% from sugarcane (probably as white sugar)
More carbs!
That's already 63% of the human diet.
Yes, 63%. I rounded the above numbers. Why are you checking my work? Don't you trust me?
Next is 3.8% from pig meat. Finally some meat! The total meat will be more than 7% once we count it all.
Imagine those carnivore diet people. Fuck 7%. They are at 100% (I suppose?)
3.1% from rape and mustard seed (probably as canola oil)
2.1% from potatoes (more starch!)
Wait... people get more calories from canola oil than from potatoes!?
2.1% from barley (more starch!)
1.9% from poultry meat. Finally some more meat, but this so far adds to 5.7% meat. I hope there is more...
Finally we get to 1.8% from all other vegetables combined.
So those recommendations that say your plate should be 1/2 vegetables.. I guess they didn't consult with the food growers of the world first.
1.7% from sugarbeet (as more white sugar again!)
1.5% from groundnuts (is that peanuts?)
1.4% from sorghum (I'm not even sure what sorghum is)
and then 1.4% from bovine meat... Our meat total is now up to 7.1%.
That's the end of the list. Everything else was too small to count.
Historically a number of other crops have made up large portions of the human diet such as: Rye, Jerusalem artichoke, Cassava, Sweet Potato, Parsnips, Broad (Fava) beans, and Squash / Pumpkin. Did I miss any? I'd like to know if I did.