[maxiepoo]

> The mushroom is an ideal food...Low in fats, sugars and calories...

It's funny to see "low calorie" as a positive for an ideal food. From the perspective of getting people enough food to live, things like grains, corn/maize and potatoes are "ideal" foods because they can cheaply get us a significant portion of our needed calories.

[guidoism]

Ha! I came here to say the same thing. How the world has changed from 99% of our existence when humans were basically hungry all the time and calorie-density was an asset not a liability!

[kiliantics]

This is not really the case though. Humans in the past, even hunter-foragers (so therefore humans for most of human history) typically had an abundance of food and didn't have to work hard for it. We just destroyed all the food-rich ecosystems that used to sustain us before agriculture became widespread.

[netizen-936824]

That's making the huge assumption that high calorie density is the only and most important thing (its not, not even close)