Paul Saladino· MD
fruit is clearly the least defended part of a plant okay that's going to be the first thing i'm going to try
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fruit is clearly the least defended part of a plant okay that's going to be the first thing i'm going to try
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plants will put defense chemicals in the fruit but those defense chemicals decrease as the fruit ripens plants are giving us a clear signal plants are so intelligent they are telling us hey here's my fruit it's colorful it has seeds in it i'm going to make the seeds very toxic don't eat the seeds don't break the seeds unless you want to have your digestion inhibited or gi issues or nausea whatever eat my fruit don't destroy the seeds make sure the seeds get to the next generation in your poop that's the intention of plants
now it makes sense to me that fruit is something that we would seek as humans that would be less toxic for us less full of problematic chemicals we know that fruit has less defense chemicals as it ripens