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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Grow fast sounds right to me. Grasses are really quick growers.
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Found an article with calories per acre numbers for various crops (but confused why it isn't calories per acre per year):https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/in-defense-of-corn-the-worlds-most-important-food-crop/2015/07/12/78d86530-25a8-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html …
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They're also energy storage for the developing plant; an interesting question would be why grain seeds need more energy storage than some other kinds of seeds
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