Alright but apart from the sugar and the fiber and the antioxidants and the vitamins and the minerals and the enzymes, what has fruit ever done for us?
Complex answers there due to bioavailability, combinations, and palatability. Cow liver has lots of vitamin A but it is liver. Carrots have a lot of A if you eat good fats with them. Sea Buckthorn has more than you need but you also get v.C and lots of other nutrients and it’s a candy.
Well it’s just a major part of many primate species’ diets, including hominids. Your mileage may vary depending on gut flora etc but humans eat a lot of fruits in general.
If I eat 1 egg a day I get a substantial part of my daily intake of every vitamin except C, which I can then find rich in vegetables instead. Veggies have more vitamins than fruit, usually, as far as I understand. E.g. vitamin C, much higher content in broccoli than, say, an orange.
Similar thing with vitamin A. Everyone keeps yapping about carrots and veggies, when the best source of it is animal liver. Some animals like polar bears have so much vitamin A in their liver that you can easily overdose on it and die. It’s not even close.
it blows my mind how many people don’t eat any fruit or veg at all.
Veg, yes, but what does fruit really give you except fiber and glucose?
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Alright but apart from the sugar and the fiber and the antioxidants and the vitamins and the minerals and the enzymes, what has fruit ever done for us?
More than what’s in meat and vegetables? 🤔
It’s there any fruit with more vitamins and such things than you can find in a corresponding vegetable or meat?
Complex answers there due to bioavailability, combinations, and palatability. Cow liver has lots of vitamin A but it is liver. Carrots have a lot of A if you eat good fats with them. Sea Buckthorn has more than you need but you also get v.C and lots of other nutrients and it’s a candy.
Also as primates we are built for fruit.
Complex indeed.
Could you explain a bit more about what being “built for fruit” means? Built more for fruit than other things or just built to “handle” it?
Well it’s just a major part of many primate species’ diets, including hominids. Your mileage may vary depending on gut flora etc but humans eat a lot of fruits in general.
Just because we do as humans doesn’t mean it’s the most nutritious. Look at the diet of koalas for example.
vitamins
If I eat 1 egg a day I get a substantial part of my daily intake of every vitamin except C, which I can then find rich in vegetables instead. Veggies have more vitamins than fruit, usually, as far as I understand. E.g. vitamin C, much higher content in broccoli than, say, an orange.
Similar thing with vitamin A. Everyone keeps yapping about carrots and veggies, when the best source of it is animal liver. Some animals like polar bears have so much vitamin A in their liver that you can easily overdose on it and die. It’s not even close.
Yep. We don’t really need fruit.