Fruit and Nuts

Here on the mini-farmstead we successfully grow bananas,  citrus,  pineapples, star fruit,  avocados,  loquats, Cattley guava, capulin (strawberry tree), mulberries, white sapote, , elderberries, sapodilla, canistel (egg fruit) sugarcane (not actually a fruit, but…) and have many more are in the  experimental phase.   Fruit is superior to grain as a carbohydrate source. Fruit provides…

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DIET AND NUTRITION

ANIMAL FOODS AND PLANT FOODS Animal foods provide nutrition in the most readily available form. In my opinion, vegan diets are simply inadequate. Plants have anti-nutrients, such as tannins and phytates which bind proteins and some minerals. Their proteins also tend to be low in a couple amino acids. Animal sourced foods are more digestible…

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