I think the opposite is true. We prefer cooked food over raw unmixed/unprocessed stuff because our instincts have been perverted.
Completely wild animals also prefer cooked-mixed foods. Cooked-mixed foods are a trap in which animals and humans fall alike. That’s also why the cooking habit has quickly spread all over the planet and has been an irreversible trend.
My experience is that I am not attracted by wild fruits here. They are smaller, less coloured, more sour and full of seeds.
I prefer my sweet and juicy hybridized papayas to fleshy unsweet ones or big grafted mangoes to smaller and stringy varieties.
Yes, that’s it and it’s the same for everyone. We have to be aware of the fact that fruits, and cattle as well, have been selected during several thousands years to taste better and better. There are exceptions though. Sometimes wild fruits taste better than modern selected ones, especially after some time of practicing a raw-paleo-instinctive nutrition. Cempedaks, for example are wild or almost wild and were at first the better tasting fruit I ever ate. Yesterday, I found blackberries an absolute delight. It shifts somewhat once we have “filled the tank” for a while with some nutrients contained in a specific foodstuff.
My tastes are distorted after years of wrong foods and when I get to wild foods I do not like them.
It can also often be due to an overload in some nutrient remaining from our “cooked and/or mixed days”.
I cannot trust my instinct at this time. I believe I need to take a step in between that is to push myself and reprogram them.
It’s the same for everyone, even after decades of practice: beware of heavily selected meats (beef, pork, lamb) and fruits: stop a the earliest feeling of having soon enough, or even before. Prefer the wildest varieties and races you can find.
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The straight assumption he does sound a bit too much philosophical for me, as if he never consistently ate a complete diet of wild foods. Didn´t he?
Nobody could ever do that for years in our modern world, I think, except for a few days or weeks.
I honestly believe there is no way any of us would find wild foods attractive from the beginning. Exception made - of course - for wild foods we already got used to, like berries for example.
We all find wild foods attractive once we are sufficiently hungry. Of, course, if remaining in a constant state of overload maintained by the consumption of modern selected -mixed - seasoned - cooked foods, it will never happen.
François
