Here's an interesting food fact: Out of the estimated 30,000 types of edible plants thought to exist on earth, only 11 (corn, rice wheat, potatoes, sorghum, cassava, millet, beans, barley, rye and oats) account for 93% of all that human's eat. And every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors (source: "At Home" by Bill Bryson
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