Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on …

Bill Bryson
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Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley, rye, and oats—account for 93 percent of all that humans eat, and every one of them was first cultivated by our Neolithic ancestors. ✨ FaceBook post byBill Bryson from Jul 05, 2016
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