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cultivated amaranth for its seeds, which have a high protein content. more important is that they had a wider variety of foods. they harvested acocils, a small and abundant shrimp of lake texcoco, also spirulina algae , which was made into a sort of cake that was rich in flavonoids, and they ate insects
, such as crickets or grasshoppers (chapulines), maguey worms, ants , larvae, etc. insects have a higher protein content than meat, and even now they are considered a delicacy in some parts of mexico. aztec also had domestic animals, like turkey and some breeds of dogs , which provided meat, although...
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