The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
when a plant is making a fruit it may put defense chemicals in the fruit when it's green when it's unripe but as the fruit ripens they get lower and lower and lower and lower and a lot of these offense chemicals are at much higher levels 5 to 10x in the stems and the leaves so fruit is clearly the least defended part of a plant
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plants do not want to be eaten they're going to defend their leaves their stems their roots and their seeds their fruit is going to be much less toxic and is probably the preferred part of Plant throughout our history as humans