Do we have a natural preference for the types of fruits and vegetables that are in season?
Imagine that you have a choice between your favorite apple and your favorite type of peach specially flown in from South America so that it is still fresh. Which would you choose?
I like peaches in warm weather, but when it gets cool I would much rather have the apple. If there are many others who feel that way then maybe there is an evolutionary explanation. Fruits (in the botanical sense) and the animals that eat them co-evolved. Could it be that the fruits are fine tuned to produce the type of nutrition best suited to the time of year?
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