The primary takeaway I received from this e-book is the sheer magnitude of how a lot we as a species shape our meals for our numerous and infrequently competing needs and wishes, and have for hundreds of years. Animals and plants developed to outlive, not to nourish us.

The basic purpose we consume meals is to extract the very important nutrients that different meals comprise to permit our our bodies to perform properly. This is achieved by digestion, the place meals are damaged down within the body right into a kind that may be readily absorbed. However, most of the nutrients contained in meals aren’t readily accessible previous to cooking and thus, can’t be simply digested by the body. For instance, the enzyme amylase (discovered within the mouth and intestine) breaks down the polysaccharide starch into its monomer glucose constituents, which can easily be digested by the body.

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