Barley Quote by Bill Bryson

“Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley,…

— Bill Bryson

Out of the thirty thousand types of edible plants thought to exist on Earth, just eleven—corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, cassava, sorghum, millet, beans, barley,…

— Bill Bryson

Out of 30,000 edible plants thought to exist on earth, just eleven account for 93% of all that humans eat: oats, corn, rice, wheat,…

— Daniel Levitin

“Even today, with all our advanced technologies, more than 90 per cent of the calories that feed humanity come from the handful of plants…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The ideal human diet looks like this: Consume plant-based foods in forms as close to their natural state as possible (“whole” foods). Eat a…

— T. Colin Campbell

The diet, to be healthy, has to be mostly fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts and seeds.

— Joel Fuhrman

“The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“CHART 11.2: NUTRIENT COMPOSITION OF PLANT AND ANIMAL-BASED FOODS (PER 500 CALORIES OF ENERGY) Nutrient Plant-Based Foods* Animal-Based Foods** Cholesterol (mg) — 137 Fat…

— T. Colin Campbell

“Your best choices are meat, dairy products, and eggs, and second to those are certain plant sources like legumes, nuts, and high-protein vegetables like…

— Michael Matthews

“A Plant-based diet is a diet sourced mostly from plants; it may be very strict in its focus on plant foods, or it may…

— Jennifer Prince

I eat vegetarian at home, so I always have yogurt and milk, eggs, whole wheat bread, whole grains. Lots of vegetables and fruit. Cereals…

— Maye Musk

“wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. Think”

— Yuval Noah Harari