Quote Originally Posted by Fizban View Post
If you have access to freshly picked berries, which are not always available.
It says, "created berries bud from the ghoran’s own body".

Human gives you more of your other options. Elf, Dwarf, Gnome, and Halfling have long lists of minor bonuses brought in from the Tolkien/etc origins. Most other races (in 3.5 anyway) either don't have much, or end up coming off as pretentious if they do have a similar list of little things because they're not a decades old high fantasy staple.
But it's a fair point that generally speaking, races in 3E/PF don't really contribute more than a stat boost, and that in gameplay it is rarely noticeable (from the mechanics/abilities) what race somebody is.