When hiking or going through a park you don’t see wild vegetables such as head of lettuce or zucchini? Or potatoes?
Also never hear of survival situations where they find potatoes or veggies that they lived on? (I know you have to eat a lot of vegetables to get some actual nutrients but it has got to be better then nothing)
Edit: thank you for the replies, I’m not an outdoors person, if you couldn’t tell lol. I was viewing the domesticated veggies but now it makes sense. And now I’m afraid of carrots.
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Some fruits and vegetables that we often eat do have wild counterparts, but they may not look similar enough, or you might simply not notice them. That said most of the fruit and vegetables, you eat are not indigenous to wherever you live in the world. It would be difficult for zucchini, tomato, corn, carrot, etc. seeds to make their way that far off farm.
Sure a hiker could step 10 feet off a trail and drop a deuce full of seeds after his raw vegan breakfast. a few of them might still be viable, but you’d have to assume that the soil is right, that the seedlings would get o enough sub, the weather would be right, but it doesn’t get eaten by an animal, etc.
Please understand that almost all fruits and vegetables eaten today look a little to nothing like their wild counterparts before we started domesticating and hybridizing fruits and vegetables. Wild onion is a good example. There is a show called Alone where contestants are stranded in isolated difficult environments, and they have to survive. And at least a few seasons, the contestants are surviving where lots of wild onions grow. The onion bulb is more like a baby carrot while the onions we get at the store are more like the size of a fist.
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