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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on March 28, 2021, 07:00:29 PM

Title: Health: Fruits
Post by: rcjordan on March 28, 2021, 07:00:29 PM
While we're discussing diets, I'll mention that many fruits have been selectively bred to increase sugars for decade after decade now.  The result is that some are candy disguised as a fruit.  The sugar is high enough that two zoos (AU & DE(?)) have had to heavily restrict the amount of fruit fed to the animals.  IIRC, the new US food pyramid also demoted fruit a bit, but that is subject to heavy lobbying --so it probably should have been demoted even more.