Why Fruit Is So Good for the Plant?

In the old days, people would eat the whole thing. If you grow up in a depression or in hard times, you ate all the way down to the core and the seeds too. These seeds are defended with oxley crystals and inpitates and many defensive chemicals that make them completely indigestible. So if you hadn't thrown away the core, you'd still be doing the plant a favor if you went and pooped in the woods. You're not only planting that tree seed somewhere distant from the mamma tree, but you are providing fertilizer.

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