After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’

Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by DeWilde on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:18PM (#31572141)

Nutritional decline of actual fruit and vegetables or the nutritional decline of food as is consumed by humans?

I don't think we are seeing the former while the later is how you use the former for the production of actual food that is consumed. Converting fruits into smoothies makes them retain mostly only sugar, while vegetables (and fruits) under thermal treatment loose a lot of nutrients like fiber and vitamins.

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Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by onlyrealcuzzo on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:19PM (#31572167)

> Converting fruits into smoothies makes them retain mostly only sugar.

Wait. So where does the potassium go in my banana when I blend it up?!

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Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by candiddevmike on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:23PM (#31572233)

The blender chops up potassium atoms into sucrose molecules via Nutri Bullet fission

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Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by cogman10 on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:45PM (#31572496)

That's why the blender motor gets hot when you run it. It's fissioning.

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Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by creaturemachine on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:01PM (#31572722)

If it's fissioning then why do I have to plug in my blender? There's something they're not telling us.

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Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by cogman10 on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:01PM (#31572733)

Mostly for 5g signals.

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Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by WithinReason on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:52PM (#31572604)

I always learn so much on HN!

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Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by Moto7451 on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:45PM (#31572499)

I think the parent might be slightly off the mark or simply is lacking detail.

One concern in nutrition is separating fruit juice from fruit pulp. You probably wouldn't eat three oranges in a sitting without feeling full but you can certainly drink three oranges' juice. That's the number of fruit needed to make a cup of orange juice.

If you're adding juice to a kale smoothy it's more complicated. At a certain point of extortion, refinement, and concentration that juice can become a proxy for simply adding cane sugar.

If you're blending your fruit and eating the pulp then there is no change.

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Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by soperj on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:16PM (#31572910)

Who can't eat 3 oranges without feeling full? How big are these oranges?

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Re:After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak ... by tunesmith on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:32PM (#31572336)

Is that true regarding smoothies? I mean, I get it for juicers, you lose the fiber. But smoothies?

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