HEIRLOOM FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
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IN SEARCH OF LOST FRUITS AND VEGETABLES • BY VALÉRIE LEVÉE
Meat, fruits and vegetables, but no grains or dairy products, and definitely no processed foods. These are the main points of the “paleo” diet, which advocates for a return to what our prehistoric ancestors used to eat. Except that prehistoric fruits and vegetables have little in common with the ones we eat now because they’ve been transformed by modern farming practices. Let’s go back to cave-dweller times to find out about the ancestors of today’s bananas, pumpkins and corn, which used to make up
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their diet.
