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A nutrient-rich food that once largely disappeared from Western diets was a staple of early Europeans, study finds

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Virtually absent from most present-day Western diets, seaweed and aquatic plants were once a staple food for ancient Europeans, an analysis of molecules preserved in fossilized dental plaque has found. Evidence for this hitherto hidden taste for the nutrient-rich plants and algae was hard to detect in the archaeological

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