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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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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Sometimes frozen fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than fresh!
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Mangoes enhance a marijuana high, allowing users to get ‘higher’ more effectively.
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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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Pineapples are not a single fruit, but a group of berries that have fused together.
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In Japan, watermelons are grown into the shape of a square so they are easier to stack and transport.
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