Goat's milk is a little easier on the digestive system, and was abundant in Rome.... sez the smarty pants.Greta wrote: ↑Wed Aug 29, 2018 11:01 pmThe floundering trivia champ returns with a decisive thrust of detailed minutiae!Dalek Prime wrote: ↑Wed Aug 29, 2018 10:49 pm Yep, just checked. Barley, bran of grains, beans, spinach, lettuce, peas, carrots, skins of other root vegetables, dairy of course, mainly because herds eat these things in bulk.
However, my understanding is that lactose intolerance was the norm until after the Bronze Age so there was only a matter of centuries for digestive systems to adapt. I'm guessing that there would have been a higher proportion of lactose intolerant people back then than since as adult human digestive systems increasingly accommodated dairy.
(Glad I had some classical training.)