While Everyone Was Going Keto, We Almost Ran Out of Fresh Fruit and Vegetables

Meanwhile, the foods most critical to long-term health—fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds—remain the least accessible. RELATED: Your Keto Diet Isn’t Cutting It AnymoreBut they also expose the limits. The findings: the world produces plenty of grains and oils, but consistently falls short on fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds. Fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds—the very foods most protective against chronic disease—remain the scarcest, hardest to scale, and most vulnerable to environmental stress. But agriculture is structured to deliver grains and oils at scale while leaving gaps in fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, and seeds.