The Hadza people feed their children meat and fruit and generally do not eat vegetables, leaves, stems, or seeds unless necessary.

“their favorite food was honey their least favorite food were tubers those are survival foods the authors of that study even call that a survival food those are fallback foods”

“tubers as fallback foods fallback foods i've said that word before and their impact on hads of hunter gatherers this is a study of hadza hunter gatherers from 2009 where they actually went to africa to live with the hunter-gatherers of the hadza tribe and they rang they had them rank all of the foods in their diet”

“Tubers are really just fallback food Tubers are survival food for these people in my opinion clearly”

“in both men and women the most preferred food is honey in men the second most preferred food is meat in women the second third and fourth foods are all about the same preference and they are meat berries and baobab in both men and women tubers are the least preferred food they're really a fallback food”

“you can see here they eat probably four or five species of tubers five species of berries they eat a number of different meats and they eat baobab and honey that's the majority of their diet that's pretty much what we observed”

“they're eating animal foods as a primary source they're eating most of tail”

“just like the hodds that base their diet around that's all they think about is meat and organs and hunting and when they can get the least toxic plant foods which are generally fruit and occasional tubers which they mostly spit out”

“they prioritize meat they always eat the organs and when they can they'll eat fruit and honey they eat leaves and stems pretty rarely occasionally they'll eat tubers it's not a big part of their diet”

“the hards eat a lot of fruit and they eat a lot of meat and they eat honey and it seems to make sense to me they don't eat a lot of vegetables”

“you've probably seen it a report i think it was the hadza uh survey that was done with them you know hunter-gatherers in africa um asking men and women separately to list their rank their five favorite foods from a list”

“and it's interesting because then i think it goes baobab for both parties was number three and then number four men go berries women go meat i think that's how that one went”

“so i was like okay that kind of makes sense then certainly we'll eat some fruit every once in a while there was a baobab tree outside of camp and you know when they were bored they would go to the bay of tree and throw some rocks at it and eat some baobab fruits and the women would often dig tubers which we would eat and then spit out the quid because there's so much fiber there's so many fibrous little strands in the tubers that you can't actually eat them and then when we got honey we would we would eat without any uh any regard for the amount of calories and the honey but uh they didn't they didn't really go out picking like pumpkin leaves and things like that when i was there or any any real vegetables”

“tanzania what is your favorite food you ask them it's meat what do you dream about meat what do you how do you celebrate we eat meat what's the best day of your life when we kill and eat the biggest animal and bring it back to the tribe and they didn't just eat meat they always eat the organs”

“the hads of feed their children meet they feed their children fruit when they have it they the kids don't end up getting a lot of honey because that's mostly the bushmen who go out in the bush which is probably a good thing we do have some concerns at least in the medical literature of children less than one years old eating raw honey due to clostridial spores so be careful of that but kids are eating fruit and meat and organs in the heads of camps and if you've listened to my other work you'll know that in general the hazard pattern is not to eat vegetables it's not to eat leaves or stems or seeds of plants unless they don't have more valuable foods more preferable foods like fruit honey or a killed animal”

“their diet is really composed of five foods tubers berries meat baobab and honey there are no vegetables in that list guys and in frank's studies both men and women rank honey as their favorite food the men make rank meat second the women rank berries uh meat and baobab kind of tied for second third and fourth both the men and the women rank tubers which is the only thing that is even sort of vegetable in this list as their least favorite”

“the Hadza they seek sweet things brightly colored things fruit honey animal foods which are delicious and incredibly nutrient rich and we avoid the toxins”

“organs and meat have been at the center of our diets for millions of years this is the way the hadza eat their food”

“they are fallback foods tubers fit the definition of fallback foods i am quoting now because they are most continuously available but least preferred foods”

“in fact when i was there they didn't even eat vegetables i didn't see them eat a single vegetable one time when i was with the hodzin last year in 2021 with my buddy anthony gustin in tanzania we did go with the women to dig tubers and we got to eat the tubers that are traditionally dug by the haze at least some of them the men went with us but they had essentially no interest in eating the two birds with us”

“In summary, animals are what they dream about, it is what they think about all the time, they are hunters. They celebrate meat and organs like nothing else. They don't give a about vegetables. They really won't eat vegetables unless they're starving. They do not eat the baobab seeds unless they're starving. They will eat occasional tubers, but they get excited about honey and fruit, but even more so, they get excited about meat and organs.”

“in summary animals are what they dream about it is what they think about all the time they are Hunters they celebrate meat and organs like nothing else they don't give a about vegetables they really they won't eat vegetables unless they're starving they do not eat The Baobab seeds unless they're starving they will eat occasional tubers but they get excited about honey fruit but even more so they get excited about meat and organs and they have no seed oils in their diet from their natural state”

“this is a mean preference rank on the y-axis and both males and females both males and females think that honey is their favorite food followed by Meat and males then Baobab and then berries and then tubers are last for males females rank berries Baobab and meat about the same but both sexes say tubers are a distant fifth in terms of their Foods”

“what do the hadza think about vegetables I can tell you very clearly the hajja don't give a [ __ ] about vegetables they don't really eat vegetables while we were there they never ate a leaf they never ate a seed the men couldn't be bothered with roots which we dug with the women almost because we just wanted to see how they did it but the men didn't want anything to do with the roots”

“The Hanzo will eat those foods but only if they are starving that is the point that I made in my first book the carnivore code that I think vegetables are very likely survival fallback foods for humans that we would eat in the event of starvation but probably not the first foods we would select as humans throughout our Evolution”

“what the men wanted to do was hunt animals to eat the animal meat to eat the animal organs with us and when they found honey they wanted to eat that and when we found berries they were excited about that”

“this is a mean preference rank on the y-axis and both males and females both males and females think that honey is their favorite food followed by Meat and males then Baobab and then berries and then tubers are last for males females rank berries Baobab and meat about the same but both sexes say tubers are a distant fifth in terms of their Foods”

“what do the hadza think about vegetables I can tell you very clearly the hajja don't give a about vegetables they don't really eat vegetables while we were there they never ate a leaf they never ate a seed the men couldn't be bothered with roots which we dug with the women almost because we just wanted to see how they did it but the men didn't want anything to do with the roots what the men wanted to do was hunt animals to eat the animal meat to eat the animal organs with us and when they found honey they wanted to eat that and when we found berries they were excited about that”

“Tubers are dead last on both of their lists of the most preferred foods.”

“The notion that the hadza love vegetables is just false I don't think any of the researchers that say this has ever have ever spent any time with the hadza they clearly want to hunt every single day they want to hunt they want to eat meat and organs first if they find honey that's like their favorite thing and they'll eat it like crazy if they find berries the whole tribe does a little dance and they get excited if they find Baobab fruit they'll eat it and if they find other fruits they'll eat them when they're in season but really they love honey the most not surprisingly low fiber good carbohydrate sources and then meat and organs and there are even Studies by Frank Marlow who's done a lot of work with the haza showing that tubers are a fallback food for them and that their favorite foods are honey meat Baobab and berries and that tubers are distant fifth that's just anthropology research I didn't make that up this is a guy who did his PhD thesis on the had done you see that pattern repeatedly”

“if you look at anthropology or you visit hunter-gatherer tribes there's not many of them left on the planet this is essentially how they eat the notion that the hadza love vegetables is just false”

“if you go to the Amazon which where he spent a lot of time they basically eat fish and Peery which is like an an eater or like a like a not an aneer but like kind of like a a hog and then they eat they eat animals and fish and they eat fruit when it's in season that's basically what they eat in the Amazon”