Plum pickings: ancient fruit ripe for modern plates:
An Indigenous fruit which is one of the earliest known plant foods eaten in Australia could be the next big thing in the bush foods industry.
The University of Queensland research team is led by bush foods researcher Associate Professor Yasmina Sultanbawa, who said the green plum not only tasted delicious but contained one of the highest known folate levels of any fruit on the commercial market.
"This is really exciting because folate is an important B-group vitamin, and what's great about the green plum is that the folate is in a natural form so the body absorbs it more easily than in a capsule," Dr Sultanbawa said.
[...] "There is recent evidence discovered in West Arnhem Land which shows the green plum was eaten by Aboriginal people as far back as 53,000 years ago."
Will mass cultivation disrupt aboriginal communities?
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @12:02AM (3 children)
Notice it's aussie native - criminality is in its dna.
Chances are, it will kill you, one way or another.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @01:17AM (2 children)
The criminals were much more recently introduced, and all imported from UK.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @04:06PM
After America first, it was where Britain sent its sick and wretched human garbage.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2020, @03:45AM
Recently imported from Syria, UAE, Iran, Iraq...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @12:10AM (1 child)
That's right, Boomers. I looted your pharmacy, and the next day your pharmacy was closed and boarded. You don't get a fucking pharmacy anymore, and you don't get to buy your fucking Boomer viagra anymore, because I fucking looted your fucking Boomer pharmacy.
Fuck you, Boomers. Fuck you all to hell. No pharmacy for you!
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @12:47AM
Did the Viagra make you taller?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 02 2020, @12:11AM (3 children)
Rest assured that by the time it makes it to supermarkets all the nutrition and flavor will have been bred out in favor of being more durable, disease resistant, etc...
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @12:15AM
You can take aussie out of ausiieland, but you cannot take the criminal out of aussie, so rest assured that it will maintain its full criminal flavor.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @01:08AM
Hey, if it can grow in Australia, it will probably grow anywhere. A plum tree in every backyard, that's my new presidential platform!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @10:44AM
Looking at the actual paper ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29806144/ [nih.gov] ) the numbers are based on dry weight. Fruits are normally about 75-90% water so I'm wondering how much fake news and marketing is in this story. If it has similar water content to a plum (85%) then the numbers won't be as impressive.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @01:42AM
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a Boomer knee crushing a human neck forever.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2020, @02:44AM
America is really going down the drain, ain't it.
You can't simply blame Trump. It's the Americans that voted him into the office.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Mykl on Tuesday June 02 2020, @04:03AM
So according to TFA the green plum seems to be very high in Folate, protein and a bunch of other stuff.
Goes well with the Kakadu Plum [wikipedia.org], which has the highest level of Vitamin C of any plant. They both grow in Arnhem Land in Australia's north.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 03 2020, @03:54AM
Probably. People getting up early in the morning to go to work, walking around with cash to steal, driving cars that drive themselves away and are so full of goodies, not to mention the hassle of staggering home past sober people who insist on not wanting to wrestle in the street.
Yes there could be some disruption to the aboriginal way of life. Especially if it affects access to alcohol or inflicts civilization on their lives.