Indigenous cultures historically prepared plants through methods like fermentation to mitigate toxins and anti-nutrients.

“if we look at the way indigenous cultures have always prepared plants they they spend hours and you know he's preparing plants sometimes and I was just talking with the gentleman the other day who was you know who lived with a lot of indigenous tribes when he was in the military and that was what he said he said when they were prepared like the women were preparing the plants all day long I mean whether they were like chewing it and spitting it out to ferment it”