Maybe he did?
If you're trying to argue that children have an aversion to putting anything in their mouth and eating it you need to argue with someone who has never been around kids. I have seen my nephew eat a wad of pennies stuck together with ol…
Chimps, bonobos and orangs eat a lot of fruit, but there is good evidence that chimps have dental adaptations to eat meat, but they can also do without it.
Chimps eat fruit (mainly) vegetation (rarely) and insects (even more rarely) and smaller monkeys (when available) but they are not -strict- fruititarians.