Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
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Coffee comes from an edible fruit. The coffee cherry is sweet and tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all at once.
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The Himalayan Goji berry has more iron than steak, more vitamin C than oranges and more beta carotene than carrots.
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If you place a ripe banana next to a green tomato, the tomato will ripen due to the ethylene gas produced by the banana.
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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
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