Food then VS now 🍌

Описание: Food then VS now 🍌

🌽 Sweet corns ancestor is a grass plant called teosinte which was a single stalk with only a few kernels that were really tough and hard to chew.

🍅 Tomatoes started out really small and mostly yellow. Thanks to ancient farmers like the Aztecs who selectively bred for larger and better flavored fruit, we now have over 10,000
tomato varieties today that come in all different sizes, shapes and colors!

🍎 The original apple is very similar to a crabapple. Tiny, bitter and extremely sour. By carefully picking only the largest, sweetest apples and selective breeding, farmers have been able to give us a delicious crisp apple that we all enjoy today.

🍉 Cave paintings and Egyptian artwork shows us that watermelon used to look entirely different. Pale flesh, swirly insides and more seeds than fruit. Once again, throughout thousands of years of selective breeding we now have more vibrant flavor, more flesh and even seedless varieties thanks to gout medicine.

🍌 Bananas used to be filled with huge seeds, a lot less flesh and a huge outer rind. They’ve been bred to be nearly seedless, a lot easier to peel and full of creamy berry goodness.

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