Can a human be a frugivore? The Scientific Reality of Fruit-Based Diets
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5 min read
While our closest primate relatives, chimpanzees, eat a largely fruit-based diet, anthropological and physiological evidence overwhelmingly indicates that humans are not biologically designed to be frugivores. Attempting a pure frugivore diet, known as fruitarianism, can lead to severe and dangerous nutritional deficiencies in humans over time.
