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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The vegetables you are familiar with eating have been selectively bred over thousands of years to be bigger and easier to eat. There are plenty of edible plants in nature (which are, by definition, vegetables)
You can eat acorns, and you’re familiar with wild fruit, I assume.
Wheat is just a type of grass
You won’t find wild potatoes because they are native to Peru, but you sure can find them in Peru.
Dandelions are edible, wild onions can be found all over the place, and mint has a long history of escaping gardens and invading the local ecosystem.
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