Hey I just saw some really good videos on this kind of topic. There were several root vegetables they ate all during the middle ages plus several other type plants. Good king Charles was one I remember. There was parsnips and a few root vegetables they ate. I'll have to try and find the video to send you a link. Now it may be they forgot about those but he was saying they basically eventually got replaced with things like carrots potatoes and things like that. I forgot the percentage of the plague victims but it was rather high so I could see enough dying off to miss a lot of knowledge. Also not sure if you heard but that plant the Roman's used for everything and contraception sylphium I think has been found a while back growing in some mountains somewhere. Hope this helps
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What an excellent observation and theory. It isn't exactly intuitive that root vegetables are an option, especially because of the fact that we would unavoidably learn about fruit and vegetable bearing plants. Fruit bearing plants would not indicate or even suggest root food was available and to explore the idea would destroy the plant. We so obviously were devastated by major catastrophic events world wide at least once.
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English natives have eaten swedes, turnips and parsnips from ancient times to now. No interruption. A lot of Roman introduced species including grape vines died off during the cold snap of the Dark Ages to Medieval period.
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Where I live in the prairie, there a plant called ground apple , it's a prolific root , with similar properties as potatoes and another plant that is call Salsify,,it is a whitish yellow carrot like veggies that is from Easter family like the Dandelion..that is probably what you referring to about the white carrot,, Spain grow some ,, a purple type ,, in America the flower is yellow,, in Europe it's purple I believe.
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Knowledge can only be so thoroughly forgotten when it's artificially suppressed. These skills were passed down by midwives, healers, and "wise women" until somebody started calling it all witchcraft. Wonder who.
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To me it is a mystery why some basic plants grow only on one or the other side of Atlantic (is unglobal), while architecture more and more seems to be similar (global)...
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Also: the Romans might have planted and grown root crops the locals didn't care for - perhaps they even resisted liking anything Roman to some extent or another...
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Roman or any empire did ate root veggies such source of their diet so what there to talk about
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Hey going to send you a link to this video for you to check out. I wouldn't take his word but knowing you I'm sure you'll check out the dates info and accuracy of it. https://youtu.be/SJnIZiH5fyM?si=pnh8JkpxxQEwjAgv Hope that helps
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Lol You make war with nutritionists... living on only bread without vitamin supplements? I'm sure they ate wild plants though, because everything in your lawn is edible except for the grass.
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Charles Kos
It is known or suspected the Romans planted root vegetables, a kind of white carrot, and raddishes, turnips in Roman Britain, however it would seem from my understanding that the knowledge of root veggies was largely lost! In Tudor times for instance the poor simply ate bread and mainly just grain was sown. In my 1st Edition Britannica, 1760s-70s, I read the entire article on Agriculture and Farming and it talks about new introductions of these root vegetables to Scotland!
My question is this. How catastrophic must have been the death at one time, or multiple times, to simply forget about root veggies! I suspect the plagues plus comet(s).
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