Greens on a fruitarian diet?

I follow several fruitarian and borderline fruitarian blogs, mostly through aggregated RSS feeds channeled directly through my browser.. (basically live bookmarks that list the titles of the latest blog post topic titles..).

OK. well, everyone has there own way of following the blogs they read, but to the point.. One blog I read semi regularly is Fredrick Patenaudes.. I'd say the guy's mostly pretty switched on and in general makes a fair amount of sense - He certainly mostly comes across as a pretty rational fellow with a lot of sound advice to give..

Recently he sent out an email about green smoothies that I have to say, had me scratching my head some..

I'll extract parts of what he wrote below:

Green Smoothies are a big craze in the raw food movement. In my opinion, it IS a good craze, but Green Smoothies are not the only way to go. Let me explain...

By blending fruits and greens together to make a Green Smoothie, we have a quick meal that almost anybody can enjoy. There's no added fat, and it helps you eat your greens, which are often not appealing in other forms.

OK, the first thing that I'd like to comment on here, is that surely if something is not appealing in its raw natural state, then common sense should tell us that it is not ideal and should be avoided?

After all, a banana-spinach-berry smoothie does NOT really taste like spinach, so that's why green smoothies are such a great idea to eat more greens and fruits.

Again.. what it seems he is suggesting is that one should fool ones body into eating something which it really doesn't want to! 

Then, he goes on to say:

==> Fruits are more important than greens!

Which naturally I am in total agreement with.. ! Then:

As humans, we are best adapted to a fruit diet with *some* greens, and NOT the other way around. You could live in good health for many years on just fruit,

Now, I have to say, I'm quite uncertain just what Fred is saying here... - I mean, is he saying that he believes that one could live for many years on just fruit, but that eventually ones health is doomed to fail because of lack of whatever it is in greens that he supposes we need? And if not, then why suggest that we need to eat greens at all, when he clearly believes that fruit is superior?

What greens essentially bring are additional minerals (and some vitamins) that will *complement* a fruit-based diet.

So, I think it's fair to say his belief is that there are essential minerals contained in greens that are not in fruit..

While I am convinced that you could live on fruit alone, long-term health is improved when the diet includes some green vegetables

Well I wrote him an email in reply, asking him to explain further.. The thing is that recently he interviewed Anne in a positive light, who he knows as a long term fruit eating fruitarian, and yet here he apparently seems to be saying that long term fruitarians are putting themselves in danger by not including greenery.. I asked him when he believes we should begin to notice the effect of our dietary lacking of greens..

No answer. Which is OK.. I don't always get time to answer all the emails I get either, but recently I notice that when I've tried to add comments to his blog they have all been denied, so I'm guessing he doesn't like someone challenging him..

In our Green Cleanse we organize a few times a year, I recommend that people eat all the fruit they want, in addition to the green smoothies.

I'd love to know just what minerals they are that he believes we fruitarians are missing out on... Come on Fred!? Let us know what you think!