Plants are Trying to Kill You
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No, that is not correct.
Early cavemen did not have fruit to "gather" back in the early days. The fruits you see in the grocery store today DID NOT EXIST AT ALL back then.
They have been selectively bred over several thousand years to be the sweet, tasty things they are today. Back then, they would have been hard to find and not particularly of interest.
Sure, if they were on a hunt and they knew for sure that some berry would not kill them (many would), they might eat a few. But it was certainly not a significant part of their diet.
The "hunter/gatherer" thing is a myth. They were hunters. Full stop.
Yes, I nearly wrote that, the 'apples' that cavemen would have come across would be small and sour, like rosehips.
Oh, I lost my sweet tooth a long time ago. As have my kids. Crabapples are marvelous, especially because nobody bothers to harvest them (Our council was so kind as to plant a whole row of them along the street, and when they fruit, it is a sight to behold - they are that prolific). All the flavor of Cox's Orange Pippins, and no sickly sweetness.