The wild banana reportedly tastes bad and bitter.
Such considerations do not take into account the alliesthesic mechanisms: wild fruits often appear inedible when tested next to the ordinary cooked food. Why? Because food preparation can violate the "instinctive judgments" and lead to a constant overload in all kinds of components, including calories. The wild fruits, however, corresponds exactly to the genetic programming of the senses and seem therefore inedible, simply because the alliesthesic mechanisms work correctly with primitive varieties. Failing to realize this leads to think that the wild stuff is definitely inedible while it suffices to wait until the culinary overload fades to discover the real flavor of wild products. I would bet that the wild bananas you provided these excellent photos shall be excellent to my taste. This is already the case for "cooking" bananas, which seem rather inedible beside cooked food, but become better than current usual bananas after a certain time of instincto.
And Iguana, ask Orkos why they don´t sell, for example, wild dates! They know wild dates!
Doesn’t it look simple? But wild dates are not grown and it is very difficult to find people willing to harvest them. Moreover, they have a less pleasant taste to standard dieters than improved varieties, so it is difficult to sell them to others consumers than long term instinctos and therefore difficult to recoup costs. Orkos does at least seek varieties as little selected as possible to integrate into their sales program which includes about twenty varieties (not only hardliners instincto clients must be satisfied, but also the much more numerous others who prefer the selected strains). But for other fruit, especially tropical fruits, Orkos’ search for wild varieties is constant: for example cempedaks are during part of the season harvested in the primeval forest. And they are much better to the instinctos’ taste than cultivated more selected varieties for example from Vietnam. This is also a point that must be considered: the wild fruits of the temperate land (apples, pears, corms) are often much more inedible than tropical fruits in the wild (cempedak, jackfruit, coconut, durian, avocado, etc.). This would be a reason to think that we are better adapted to tropics than to temperate regions
I cannot believe that an instincto in whatever wild environment would manage to eat as much sugar as he does in the civilised world.
It depends which instinctos we talk about. Your overall impression is probably distorted by different bias.
1. A long term instincto does not eat so much foods high in sugar.
2. The high consumption of sweet foods observed in the early days have obviously a therapeutic function.
3. Defective supplies (moreover from temperate regions) may push to over-consumption.
4. Selected modern fruits actually induce over-consumption.
5. The natural environment as one think of it does not correspond to what could be a natural environment inhabited by homo “preculinaris”, because man has abandoned all kinds of fruit that became less palatable as a result of overloads induced by artificial food processing, and these fruits being no longer consumed, their seeds no longer had the same chance of reproduction.
6. To get an idea of what could be the natural environment inhabited by homo “preculinaris”, we can go see the primeval forest where primates fairly close to us live, except that the fruit multiplied by spontaneous spreading of their seeds are not the same that suits the human palate.
We must remain very cautious in this kind of considerations. Personally, I prefer to look at what the instinct leads to eat (avoiding the culinary art and agriculture as much as possible, which is already a good approximation) and health outcomes. If a person consumes three kilos of jackfruit per day and gains weight while all previous treatments had not allowed her to do so, I tend to conclude that this apparently excessive ration is her real needs, even if the nutritional science is unable to give an explanation. If someone eats 500 grams of comb honey per day (natural and from unfed bees to avoid any deterioration in taste) and then this consumption is interrupted because the same honey taste has changed, as well as that during this period of apparent overload nutritional balance criteria were met (eg the absence of inflammatory tendency), I deduce that this massive supply of sugar had a reason for being, rather than going into all sorts of arguments about adaptation to a primitive environment – which do not stand on any concrete basis.
