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ACTUAL FOOD

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What it is

Fruit. The original snack food — the thing your lineage is built to chase.

Why your biology objects

Primates are frugivores, and equatorial ancestors had sweet fruit year-round. The fructose comes fiber-bound and ~1:1 with glucose, absorbed slowly enough that the liver never sees a free-fructose bolus. Domestication made it *better*, not worse — we bred out the bitterness and toxins and in the sweetness, the same selection that turned a poisonous wild almond edible. The only question is how much actual fruit made it into the recipe.

Would your ancestors eat this?

Point your camera at any label and get the verdict in seconds. Coming to the App Store.

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