modeler@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is the oldest common food in the typical western diet?
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6 months agoI’m going to suggest food items that we still take from nature and eat with minimal preparation:
- Honey
- Fish like salmon, trout, grouper
- Shellfish (eg oysters)
We have evidence of shellfish and fish being eaten for a very long time - at least the middle stone age at 140kya - in middens which are 10s of thousands of years old.
Honey is likely to have been a food source - a treat even - even before humans left Africa (so before 100kya) but sadly this would be invisible in the archeological record
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