Do you have any idea where everyday fruits and veggies were first grown?(Image credit: Lew Robertson via Getty Images)
Once you go to a food market, you’re likely to see collections of fruits and veggies waiting to be taken home. Nevertheless, these edibles weren’t always like this; many were cultivated — that is, deliberately grown for particular traits — across centuries if not millennia to be sizeable and extra delicious.
These victuals each started in a distinct setting. Thus, are you aware of the homelands of apples and gourds? How about sweet potatoes, cherries and citrus fruits? Fragrant snacks derived from beans, such as cocoa and java, were also grown by people. Try our quiz to find out if you can pinpoint the place of origin of 15 fruits, veggies and legumes.
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Laura is the archaeology and Life’s Little Mysteries editor at Live Science. She also reports on general science, including paleontology. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scholastic, Popular Science and Spectrum, a site on autism research. She has won multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association for her reporting at a weekly newspaper near Seattle. Laura holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and a master’s degree in science writing from NYU.
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