[RappingBoomer]

cereals are out of fashion right now due to Bro Science on the internet, but most people of eurasian descent are literally evolved to eat cereal grain...yeah, in the last 5k year, very roughly, it was the basis of our diet

[kspacewalk2]

Processed sugary junk food that passes for "breakfast cereal" 80-90% of the time bears little to no resemblance to anything humans anywhere in the planet evolved to habitually consume.

[JoeAltmaier]

That is curiously true of everything we eat. Even carrots and potatoes. Today's hybrids don't resemble anything we evolved to eat, by a wide margin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc4zFD3vWHU

[betwixthewires]

Calling horticultural changes in crop plants comparable to clumps of ground grain mass manufactured and loaded with sugar is a bit absurd.

When humans begin to cultivate a population of wild plants, there's a new selective pressure on those plants to better serve human beings. As a result, these horticultural practices in almost all cases created more nutritious food for human beings. Modern issues such pressure to look good on a shelf rather than keep human beings healthy enough to till fields are a blip on the radar, an issue stretching back less than 100 years. All in all the food we bred more closely matches what our evolutionary path lead our bodies to demand nutritionally, because if it didn't the plant's wouldn't have been able to outcompete their wild counterparts, people would stop growing them.

The watermelon specifically in the video was an underripe watermelon.

[JoeAltmaier]

Dream on.

The watermelon was cut to eat on a feast table. All indications are, it was the best they had.

Fantasies about 'eating paleo' and such are just that, fantasies. To eat like we did thousands of years ago, you'd be eating plants that were barely digestible with toxins and organic compounds designed to injure us. Because until we tamed them, the plant had no pressure (as you say!) to be nutritional.

No, boxed candy cereal is not good for you. But eat oatmeal then (which is a cereal). Which is digestible, because we modified it heavily.

[betwixthewires]

I don't know what particular thing I said that you're responding to, besides the watermelon thing. Dream on? About what?

[mekoka]

> cereals are out of fashion right now due to Bro Science on the internet

You're wrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Cordain

Call it bad science if you want, which you'll then have to defend, but it's not "bro" science.

[triyambakam]

> The data for Cordain's book only came from six contemporary hunter-gatherer groups, mainly living in marginal habitats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet

[pid-1]

Your avg supermarket cereal is full of sugar. Is avoiding sugar bro science?

I generally eat porridge for breakfast, good enough.

[hollywood_court]

Call me a “bro” but we don’t keep cereal in our house. My 3 year old has never had it to the best of my knowledge.

Sugar is everywhere and we do what we can to limit our intake.

I try to consume 30 grams of protein within the first hour of being awake and that would be difficult with cereal.

[RC_ITR]

Oatmeal/overnight oats are as popular as ever.

Sugar-coated fiber-free dessert cereals are what’s out of fashion.

In case a language barrier problem is at cause: there are cereal grains but this study is about things like fruity pebbles.

[Cupertino95014]

"out of fashion" is so right. Just look at the herd of negative comments here.