America probably goes the furthest in this regard, but the trend is also older than America the country. Examples: The strawberries you and I eat are actually

America probably goes the furthest in this regard, but the trend is also older than America the country. Examples: The strawberries you and I eat are actually a hybrid species created in 1715. The wild variety, the woodland strawberry, is about 1/4 the size and much more tart. Bananas largely come from one of two species, the main one having been domesticated 8,000 years ago. Humans of that era domesticated it for some reason other than the fruit, because the fruit was inedible, it took a few thousand years before we could eat it. The lemon was hybridized citron and the bitter orange around 1100. Citron has a very thing rind, with the edible center part being typically the size of a golf ball. The bitter orange is ... not very sweet. The oranges you and I buy in the store, tellingly called the “sweet orange” is a hybrid first mentioned in 314CE.