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@ BTC_P2P
2025-04-24 17:33:34
“Meant” is subjective and not a given.
It’s been argued quite convincingly that all modern fruits and vegetables are hyper-sweet, hyper-fleshy non-natural versions of something that once grew in the wild. I personally side with this rationale and believe that no modern selectively bred plant food is natural or is meant to be eaten by humans.
In the past (pre agriculture and selective breeding) fruits were much less sweet, much smaller and the seed/skin-to-flesh ration was drastically higher. These pre human intervention fruits were also only ripe for a few weeks a year, and humans would gorge on them to fatten for winter. They were never staples.
You’ll find that with almost all analysis of plant foods that the benefits are studied but the harmful elements are wholly ignored.
Plants do objectively contain many compounds that inhibit nutrient absorption (anti-nutrients) as well as contain many compounds that are inflammatory or otherwise harmful (oxalates, sugars, tannins, lectins and literally in some cases triple digit carcinogens in appreciable concentrations).
These facts makes me skeptical of any benefits from plants as food/drink and I think in most cases plant foods have a net negative effect on human physiology.