Eons of selective breeding to over generalize.
Very little of what you eat is in any way natural.
Yes it is that simple the source plants from which we bred these fruits and vegetables into existence came from have no where near the nutritional content of their modern descendants.
Let’s take the banana for example: a wild banana is a strachy, small little fruit with quite a few large pits in them. They were selected for smoother flesh, tastier and smaller seeds over 10,000 years and the result is a plant which is wildly different in taste, texture, appearance and nutritional value than it’s ancestor.
A wild peach is thought to be a small dense bitter little fruit about the size of a cherry.
A wild watermelon – is bitter but we bred it to extend the placenta. Yes the red part is pure placenta for a plant. Older cultivars had swirls of white and the rest was placenta.
We concentrated what was already there and made it better with thousands of years of effort all over the globe.
Why doesn’t wheat, grains and meat have such changes?
We bred them all to do something else or the limits of what an animal can be bred into based on it’s genetic code. They eat these things like us so why would they need to produce it?
Some crops we split into two like corn.
Some crops like the potato are simply food stores for the plant to trigger regrowth rather than the reproductive part of the plant.
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