371: We used to eat 6,000 types of plants—now we only eat 9 | Award-winning food journalist Dan Saladino
Dan Saladino discusses why our diets only contain 9 species of plants and how your relationship with food affects your health.
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Show Notes
Dan Saladino: “Just 3 species of plants provide more than 50% of the world's calories.”
Saladino, an award-winning food journalist, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss the link between biodiversity and nutrition, plus:
- Why our diets only contain 9 species of plants (~02:50)
- What drives a lack of crop diversity (~07:28)
- The most endangered foods & what it means for your nutrition (~13:14)
- How your relationship with food affects your health (~23:13)
- How to support biodiversity in the food system (~26:05)
Referenced in the episode:
- Saladino's book, Eating To Extinction.
- Read more about farmed vs. wild salmon.
- Read more about the Hadza and their hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
- A study on the diverse gut microbiomes of Hadza hunter-gatherers.
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