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Here is an article depicting a couple other fruits and vegetables pre/post domestication. https://www.sciencealert.com/fruits-vegetables-before-domestication-p
by throwaway_USD 6y ago
Here is an article depicting a couple other fruits and vegetables pre/post domestication.
https://www.sciencealert.com/fruits-vegetables-before-domestication-photos-genetically-modified-food-natural https://www.sciencealert.com/fruits-vegetables-before-domest...
My favorite was learning the carrots weren't originally orange but purple or white. Corn may be shocking to people. In my opinion the banana has many similarities to the watermelon in terms of the "holes" and filling out post domestication.
- helij 6y agoWhite carrots are still around but they are kind of 'less' carrots and are used to feed the pigs.
- krisoft 6y agoInteresting. Where I’m from white carrots are absolutely for human consumption. So much so that I can’t even imagine a proper Sunday chicken soup without some.
- throwaway_USD 6y agoIts not that I haven't seen white or purple carrots, rather learning they were bred to be orange for royalty.
- bmn__ 6y ago> Corn may be shocking to people. It did shock me. That's an even more obscene enlargement than wild grass into polyploid wheat.
- robocat 6y agoAnd about watermelon specifically, with a different painting (Giuseppe Recco's Still Life With Fruit 1634-1695) showing a modern melon: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/08/150821-watermelon-fruit-history-agriculture/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/08/150821-water...
- ajmurmann 6y agoAt least at the US West coast I've been frequently buying bundles of carrots that included purple, yellow and white (pale yellow?) carrots.