Has anyone looked into a raw fruitarian diet?

It is a diet that consists of only exotic fruits (bananas, mangoes, coconuts, dragon fruit, avocado etc) that as animals we would have intrinsically eaten as a primary diet and would have grown in our natural habitat in african rain-forests. But because fruits were at the time a resource, out of our controllable and not abundant enough to support us in primitive tribes we began to hunt. Copying other predators.

My thoughts are that in essence it is sustainable but I believe it is better to have this diet and also eat seeds etc.

I think the concept of returning to our animistic natural diet is really beautiful... what are your thoughts on this?

I wanted to try the whole raw food lifestyle but after doing a bit of research - I am afraid that it can actually wreck a havoc on your teeth. So your exotic fruits diet would be even worse, it would just destroy your teeth I'm afraid.

That is such a menial issue in comparison to the advantages it provides, also replacing teeth isn't impossible either.

The fruitarian diet is frankly idiotic and not healthy.Do some proper (non biased) research into it, along with some proper research into human nutrition to discover why. And stop getting advice from people on YouTube who make money selling this silly diet, which I assume is how you came across this as almost everyone does.@Angry cucumber

While there's no doubt that humans eat more meat than they need to there's also no real doubt (unless you believe in supplements) that humans do need to eat some types of meat (albeit more like once or twice per week). The Frutarian diet actually increases the amount of meat you'd need to eat to compensate for the fact that fruit is less nutritionally dense than vegetables.

Raw or not raw makes little difference.

It is a diet that consists of only exotic fruits (bananas, mangoes, coconuts, dragon fruit, avocado etc) that as animals we would have intrinsically eaten as a primary diet and would have grown in our natural habitat in african rain-forests. But because fruits were at the time a resource, out of our controllable and not abundant enough to support us in primitive tribes we began to hunt. Copying other predators.

My thoughts are that in essence it is sustainable but I believe it is better to have this diet and also eat seeds etc.

I think the concept of returning to our animistic natural diet is really beautiful... what are your thoughts on this?

We're omnivores. We can get food from so many sources, that's part of our evolution.


Also, pretty difficult to get protein unless you're eating a vast quantity of beans and lentils.

It is a diet that consists of only exotic fruits (bananas, mangoes, coconuts, dragon fruit, avocado etc) that as animals we would have intrinsically eaten as a primary diet and would have grown in our natural habitat in african rain-forests. But because fruits were at the time a resource, out of our controllable and not abundant enough to support us in primitive tribes we began to hunt. Copying other predators.

My thoughts are that in essence it is sustainable but I believe it is better to have this diet and also eat seeds etc.

I think the concept of returning to our animistic natural diet is really beautiful... what are your thoughts on this?

Good Lord.

Have you discovered that fool 'Freelee The Banana Girl' on Youtube/Instagram or something?

While there's no doubt that humans eat more meat than they need to there's also no real doubt (unless you believe in supplements) that humans do need to eat some types of meat (albeit more like once or twice per week). The Frutarian diet actually increases the amount of meat you'd need to eat to compensate for the fact that fruit is less nutritionally dense than vegetables.

Raw or not raw makes little difference.

The fruitarian diet is frankly idiotic and not healthy.

Do some proper (non biased) research into it, along with some proper research into human nutrition to discover why. And stop getting advice from people on YouTube who make money selling this silly diet, which I assume is how you came across this as almost everyone does.

@Angry cucumber

What about the humans of a few hundred years ago? They wouldn't have access to exotic fruits or the climate to grow them. These fruits were probably very expensive to obtain. Exotic fruits aren't the best for you anyway..

Fruit should never be a large constitute of your diet. Stick to the lower calorie fruits like blueberries, apples etc.

Why are people obsessed with trying to mimic the whole paleo/caveman diet. Just eat protein/veg/some fruits/some seeds/some fats and you'll be fine.

I'm naturally a healthy eater as I never crave artificial food sources. The diet made complete sense to me, when I overheard people saying 'everything gives you cancer nowadays'. This made me contemplate that as all foods we modernized humans believe are natural (red meat, fish, milk, bread) are all carcinogens. Yes all are good for you but not in anything close to abundance. The only food source good in abundance is fruit, not even vegetables are healthy in abundance.

People have a notion tethered to sugar that it is bad, but what don't consider is that our perception of sugar relates to artificial sugar and not fructose -- fructose cannot lead to any blood pressure related disease even with an abundant intake.

Maybe neglecting the 'cave-man' diet was a core mistake.

Not healthy would have sufficed. You are being unnecessarily combatative here Sophie.