Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Paleo-trolling #1

ResearchBlogging.org

You know what is "Paleo"? Oat porridge 
(new evidence has found that hunter-gatherers were grinding future domesticated cereals like oats in Italy 32,000 years ago)

You know what isn't? Broccoli
(as I pointed out in my last post, Broccoli and other Paleo-promoted brassicas such as kale, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts, are all the same species, which has been cultivated and curated by humans into a variety of different forms and tastes. And as far as we know, this certainly wasn't happening in the Palaeolithic, but rather much later. Even Wikipedia knows this)

So put that in your Paleo diet and smoke it...

References
Buck, P. (1956). Origin and taxonomy of broccoli Economic Botany, 10 (3), 250-253 DOI: 10.1007/BF02899000

Mariotti Lippi M, Foggi B, Aranguren B, Ronchitelli A, & Revedin A (2015). Multistep food plant processing at Grotta Paglicci (Southern Italy) around 32,600 cal B.P. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 112 (39), 12075-80 PMID: 26351674

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