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Do Hunter-Gatherers Eat Vegetables? — Whalespan

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Do Hunter-Gatherers Eat Vegetables?

Paul Saladino12m · 2020-07-17

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✓Well SupportedHuman dietary patterns are heavily influenced by geographic latitude, with more plant food available near the equator and more animal food in the Arctic.✓Well SupportedThe extinction of megafauna forced humans to rely on less calorically dense food sources, which may not reflect ancestral diets from hundreds of thousands of years ago.✓Well SupportedPlant foods can be ranked on a spectrum of toxicity, from highly toxic lectins to less toxic options like non-sweet fruits and some tubers.✓Well SupportedIn an Amazonian tribe's diet, meat constitutes approximately 55% of calories, with fruit also being significant.Partially Supported

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An Amazonian tribe consumes over 70 different types of fruit annually, compared to approximately 10 types available in Western supermarkets.

◐Partially SupportedThe Huaorani tribe can identify and reject foods with undesirable phytochemicals using over 30 words for phytochemical taste.

◐Partially SupportedHunter-gatherer diets may have varied by latitude, with equatorial populations consuming more animals and fruit, and northern populations consuming more animals.

◐Partially SupportedTo thrive, one should limit consumption of plant leaves, stems, and roots and focus on fruit.

◐Partially SupportedIn hunter-gatherer societies, fruits constituted 41.3% of total plant food intake, followed by nuts, seeds, and leaves.

◐Partially SupportedReintroducing acorn squash into the diet triggered a return of severe eczema within five days for an individual on a strict carnivore diet.

◐Partially SupportedSome hunter-gatherer societies avoid most vegetables due to anti-nutrient content.

◐Partially SupportedThe fruit of plants is much less likely to contain anti-nutrients compared to other plant parts, with the exception of fructose.

◐Partially SupportedNon-sweet fruits like avocado and squash are hypothesized to be less toxic to humans than sweet fruits.

◐Partially SupportedSweeter, hybridized fruits are less desirable than non-sweet fruits due to potential toxicity concerns.

◐Partially SupportedIn contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, cacao is consumed after fermentation, yielding ground nibs or cocoa powder.

◐Partially SupportedAnimal to plant subsistence ratios in hunter-gatherer diets may have changed due to marginalization.

◐Partially SupportedThe fruit of the cacao plant is fermented before consumption.