Q 01/05

Alongside grains and dairy, strict versions of the paleo diet exclude which popular everyday drink?

A) Herbal tea

B) Bone broth

C) Coffee

D) Lemon water

Answer · why

C) Coffee

Coffee has no confirmed history as a drink before the 15th century, when Sufis in Yemen brewed it to stay awake for night prayers.

Q 02/05

Wild almonds, unlike the farmed kind paleo eaters snack on, can contain potentially fatal levels of which poison?

A) Cyanide

B) Arsenic

C) Strychnine

D) Ricin

Answer · why

A) Cyanide

Cyanide was bred out of almonds by growers who selected sweet trees, one reason critics say modern produce is nothing like Stone Age food.

Q 03/05

Which popular snack nut is banned on the paleo diet because it is botanically a legume?

A) Cashew

B) Pistachio

C) Macadamia

D) Peanut

Answer · why

D) Peanut

Peanut plants push their pods underground to ripen, and the crop belongs to the pea family alongside beans and lentils.

Q 04/05

Dr Mark Hyman promotes a diet that blends paleo eating with which other approach?

A) Pescatarianism

B) Veganism

C) Raw foodism

D) Fruitarianism

Answer · why

B) Veganism

Veganism gives the pegan diet half its name and plants about three-quarters of its plate; one reviewer called the name a paradox, since paleo eating i...

Q 05/05

Dairy animals came later, but which animal had Stone Age hunter-gatherers already domesticated before farming began?

A) Goat

B) Sheep

C) Pig

D) Dog

Answer · why

D) Dog

Dog domestication is the only one known from the Ice Age; proto-dogs may have scavenged carcasses that hunters left at kill sites.