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> The mushroom is an ideal food...Low in fats, sugars and calories... It's funny to see "low calorie" as a positive for an ideal food. From the perspective of
by maxiepoo 5y ago
> The mushroom is an ideal food...Low in fats, sugars and calories...
It's funny to see "low calorie" as a positive for an ideal food. From the perspective of getting people enough food to live, things like grains, corn/maize and potatoes are "ideal" foods because they can cheaply get us a significant portion of our needed calories.
- netizen-936824 5y agoThat's making the huge assumption that high calorie density is the only and most important thing (its not, not even close)
- guidoism 5y agoHa! I came here to say the same thing. How the world has changed from 99% of our existence when humans were basically hungry all the time and calorie-density was an asset not a liability!
- kiliantics 5y agoThis is not really the case though. Humans in the past, even hunter-foragers (so therefore humans for most of human history) typically had an abundance of food and didn't have to work hard for it. We just destroyed all the food-rich ecosystems that used to sustain us before agriculture became widespread.
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