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This is a myth. I think 10,000 years ago there were only 2 million humans walking the earth. Fruit trees growing on uninhabited islands today have delicious sweet mangos. Fruits which exist but have never been cultivated at scale are also deliciously sweet.
๐ค55555๐4y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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While I'm sure not everyone had access to sweet fruit all the time, are you sure it was really so rare?
Fruit is meant to be eaten, so as long as plants have the spare energy, I don't see why they wouldn't make lots of appealing fruit.
Veggies would make more sense to be bitter.
Also, where did you get 1000 generations from? That's 20000 years in one place. It seems like a lot of humans would be a lot more mobile than that.
๐คchmod600๐4y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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Can you cite some sources please? I've tasted some very sweet wild berries.
๐คhoka-one-one๐4y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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In addition to things other folks have said: Honey has existed for quite some time, because bees have existed for quite some time. Honey is pretty full of sugary goodness.
๐คBroken_Hippo๐4y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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> Earlier fruits didn't have anywhere near the sugar content of the cultivated ones today
This is not substantiated[1][2]
1. https://twitter.com/Botanygeek/status/1149968041964396545
2. https://deniseminger.com/2011/05/31/wild-and-ancient-fruit/
๐คshlant๐4y๐ผ0๐จ๏ธ0
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Sources of sugar such as sweet fruits and honey were rare delicacies, not daily occurrences.
Humans in various regions would have adapted over 1000 generations to better match their environment.
We live in a VERY different world now.