What were fruits and vegetables like before our crops?

Have you ever wondered what fruits and vegetables were like in ancient times? With the arrival of man, the land has undoubtedly changed a lot; the environment, animals and food, you will be surprised at how different the latter were!

How were fruits and vegetables before our crops?

Even if hard to believe, you can buy the most organic and natural fruit or vegetable you find, but you would be surprised with how different it looks now compared to how it was several centuries ago.The change is impressive and undeniable !

Take a banana, that sweet, soft and delicious fruit; without pipes and smooth and yellow hull.If we go back about 7,000 or 10,000 years, towards wild varieties, we will find that they were small, hard fruits and full of elongated seeds.

Thanks to the processes of artificial selection, man has chosen only those plants with the most desirable characteristics to be reproduced. This allowed bananas, for example, to become the fruit we know today.

What were fruits and vegetables like before our crops?

Another clear example is carrots, did you know that they were nothing more than white or purple roots whose appearance is not appealing at all? Humans were responsible for making them longer and thicker and giving them yellow, purple and orange tones for hundreds of years, which generated the current varieties; finally, the original ceased to exist.

The eggplant was not purple , but blue or yellow and did not have the current elongated shape, was rather round and small with a bitter taste.What do you think?

What were fruits and vegetables like before our crops?

Do you like watermelon? This juicy and refreshing fruit has its origin in Africa and was very common in the markets around 1600, but it looked a little less appetizing; its interior was green and its seeds much larger.

The corn has changed dramatically; Today we know it juicy, crispy and sweet, wrapped in green or yellow leaves, but the truth is that the corn looked more like the current peas, came in pods and was a dry and unattractive plant .Its change began since the fifteenth century, when the European colonization took place.How were fruits and vegetables before our crops? ">

From these facts, you can imagine a little how were fruits and vegetables in ancient times and how different they they are today. Nowadays fruits have already lost many of their original qualities, and even hybrids are already created and genetically modified , so it is likely that in the future, the world will have a variety of foods completely different from the current ones.How can you imagine them?

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