On 1/7/2016 12:48 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jan 2016 05:24:35 -0500, Don Wiss wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 23:25:50 -0600, Sqwertz > wrote:
>>
>>> So what makes a mayo paleo? The kind of oil used? Didn't cavemen
>>> have soybeans?
>>
>> Correct. We weren't eating seeds. To protect their reproductive cycle,
>> plants put anti-nutrients in seed coverings to discourage animal
>> consumption (phytic acid, lectins, and enzyme inhibitors). Fruit seeds are
>> not supposed to be digested, but to pass through and still be viable. They
>> would never have been a food.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinutrient
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytic_acid#Food_science
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectins#Toxicity
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme_...atural_poisons
>
> So then why is macadamia seed/nut oil acceptable?
>
> I'm just finding it hard to believe that paleo peoples didn't eat
> everything they could get their hands on and didn't make them sick or
> dead. Beans would have been plentiful and are still eaten in great
> quantities today.
>
> -sw
>
Yeah, I would think they'd eat anything and everything. They didn't
think about "diets". It was about survival, right? So, kill a lion
(before it kills you) and eat it.

Ditto beans, seeds, fruit and yes, nuts. I'm no scientist but it seems
to me it was quite a while after the paleolithic period that people
learned to press anything for oils. Cooking oils were probably low on
their list of priorities.

Jill