Fun convo with @csvoss: categorizing foods + organisms based on how much they've been optimized by natural selection to be edible. Easiest examples: milk, (botanical) fruits, honey all optimized to be eaten by something. Seeds and eggs optimized to become an organism.
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Confusing (to me): grains (wheat, rice, corn, etc). Glancing at the Wikipedia articles, their wild ancestors spread by wind. So not optimized to be eaten! (Although still seeds / fruits.) Then why so dominant as food crops? Do they just grow fast or something?
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