[ivanbakel]

Humans have been processing foods for a long time. Milling, threshing, malting, fermentation are all traditional processing techniques which often make food easier and more nutritious to consume.

And while cultivated fruits and veggies are not pap-soft, they are significantly less fibrous than seeds, stalks, husks etc that you would get from foraged, unprocessed food. Especially our farmed leaves are much softer than grass, leaves etc, that animals eat.