Common Fruits And Veggies You Didn't Know Were Man-Made
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- Weird History Food is showing you the fruits and vegetables that seem natural but are actually man-made. Nowadays, many people like to know where their fruits and veggies came from - whether that's an organic farm across the country or an orchard a few miles away. But how many of us actually think about where our produce came from? As in, how it originated as food?
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So many people don't understand that generations of selective breeding is a form of genetic engineering.
Yes, but it is not gene splicing.
@@kevintodd8195 is gene splicing bad?
@@BlankParty for humanity health ? Not so much that you care anyway, Invasive species like honey bee ? Yes, like a lot, not just that, some become weaker than their ancestor like banana, but some become too powerfull the native species can't eat them, you can gene split your plant, just don't let it reproduce outside your farm/garden
@@BlankParty It depends on how you look at it, some crops genetically modified, now have carcinogens, and some veggie crops have insecticides in their DNA, do you or anyone you know want to eat that? Artificial bug killers in the creator's natural crops. So many countries have outlawed gmo food, countries with rich culinary culture, it's no surprise that Italy has.
@@BlankParty the entire Soy crown is full of RoundUp^Tm insecticides and one of the main contributors to Soy boys, low sperm counts , low T, infertility, and Gender Dysmorphia.
18 Million x the estrogen of beef .
We screwed up one of the Best crops the earth created .
Fun fact - modern corn could not survive without people to plant it. If an ear of corn falls to the ground, the little plants will crowd each other out because there are so many seeds on the ear. Also, the French word for strawberry is Fraise, not Frezier.
Not only that strawberries were white 🐻❄️ not red 🍒
The fruit is a "fraise". The plant is a "fraisier". There is the dumb cheap joke about Julius de Berry. Berry is a very old region of what became France. It dates back to BCE.
Who is Julilus de Berry?
Basically *everything* we eat today is man-made in one way or the other via artificial selection.
That's fine.
I mean, natural/organic doesn't mean it has to be something you found in the wild, which is the only food that isn't man made. I assume most people know farming is a thing.
Organic means that they only use approved pesticides and fertilisers.
And then there are the funny ones, the species that humans didn't deliberately train to be edible but snuck their way into our crops by mimicking other crops, kind of a halfway point between artificial and natural selection lol. Rye became edible because it shifted to look more like wheat because farmers would pull out the rye and leave in the wheat, so any rye that looked sufficiently like wheat was able to survive to the next generation, which eventually morphed the plant into something more edible for us too
Animals as well. People chose to slaughter the weakest ones and to keep breeding the strongest animals or the ones that were giving the most milk and eggs.
Unfortunately, the same crops are grown globally and the same animals are farmed globally. People are talking about endangered animals going extinct, but not a word about the already extinct plants. Animals feed on specific plants, and if those plants go extinct, animals will also die. Globalization is how we lose all kinds of diversity.
Citrus is like apples, you need to graft the stock you want to a citron root stock to grow good citrus, as the plants will fertilize easily with any citrus. This gives seeds that could grow wildly different citrus from the fruit it came from, and is also why we have so many varieties of citrus.
Tomatoes are NOT fruit you don't eat them as a dessert only fruit such as strawberry,🍓🍎 apple, banana 🍌, peaches 🍑 pears 🍐 Kiwi 🥝 cherry 🍒, blue berry 🫐, black berry 🍇 grape, watermelon 🍉, cantaloupe, honeydew, orange 🍊 lemons 🍋🍈are concidered fruit and quava,is too and pineapple 🍍 mostly you can use them for juices or dessert and jelly but tomatoes are veggies and you can't turn it into jelly or jam just as a sauce or in coleslaw or salad or stewed or as a sandwich like my mom used to eat (I'd rather have onions 🧅or garlic 🧄
Most citrus are polyembryonic - muliple seedlings can grow from a single seed. Usually, the strongest seedling is a genetic clone and true-to-type. The reason citrus are grafted are that seedlings will typically grow straight and become thorny, and because fruiting takes many more years from seed than from a graft.
Sure I'm only 40ish and grapes, bananas, watermelon...were all different than what you'd buy today. I can't remember the last time I saw grapes with seeds, watermelon seeds used to be horrible, you can almost eat the ones today. Giant strawberries didn't exist. So, it's not a stretch to the imagination to hear how different natural plants are.
We still have grape with seed, as well banana full of seed too in Indonesia
Oh my god I totally forgot about how annoying seeds in grapes were!!! But the watermelon ones were the worsssst
I am 51, and most plants have lost their flavor. Especially tomatoes and strawberries
@@Dany_Stormborn yup we called it pisang batu (stone banana) because it's full of stone hard seed. It's a ancestors species of modern banana and plantains.
@@Dany_Stormborn I completely agree about homegrown tomatoes. 1,000% tastier🍅😋
You had to bring the grapefruit video into this 😆🤣
Your corn production statistic is off by many orders of magnitude. It's in the MILLIONS of tons, not hundreds.
I chew popcorn kernels all the time with no problems, as long as they’re cooked
How does your wife feel about that 🤔
Frankenberry indeed.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Concerning carrots, given how closely the wild carrot looks like the hemlock plant, I'm surprised we even tried domesticating it... nowadays, there accidents with hikers and survivalists mistaking helmlock (or other poisonous plants of the same family) for carrrots
I should point out that the Oxford English Dictionary properly defines "corn" as any plant that is grown for its seeds, such as wheat,. Maize is one type of corn but not all corn is maize.
That's an old definition. Nobody says "corn" and refers to anything other than _Zea mays_ anymore.
@@THall-vi8cp certainly not Americans, but , to quote George Bernard Shaw, In America, they haven't spoken it (English) for years. Congratulations on receiving your Royal Warrant to be the arbiter of the language - I must have missed the news coverage.
"Neither irony or sarcasm is argument."
-Samuel Butler
@@THall-vi8cp Neither are stupidity and arrogance.
Oh! How about a video on why Hershey's failed in Australia?
It's not just financially, either. I've heard that Hershey's and American chocolate in general now has a horrible reputation in Australia to this day. Like, it's a popular meme in Australia (and Europe) that American chocolate is awful because of the failed push by Hershey's to sell their chocolate there.
To those without a tolerance to American chocolate, it is described as overly sweet and with the twang of vomit flavor
@@Ezramicon Honestly, I've eaten European food and had meals with Europeans. The food is really bland, and hearing the European guy complain that there was some seasoning on his steak was a really eye-opening experience. Like, imagine being so committed to disliking American food that you turn your nose up at the very idea of putting a little salt on your meat and treat your food as superior because it doesn't have any flavor.
Like, fine, enjoy turning your nose up at food with a very small amount of seasoning, you pretentious git. I'm sure Gordon Ramsay would approve.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 Right? LOL
Oh yes, Hershey's bar vs Australian Cadbury bar? No contest. Cadbury has a nicer flavour and mouth feel. I suspect American candy focuses more on adding things together or mixing salty and sweet flavours then on having a quality chocolate. If you are always eating chocolate with things in it, a lower quality chocolate may not bother you. Whereas a lot of Australian confectionery has only one add-in so if the chocolate isn't good, people won't like it. That's my theory.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 No. It's just that you americans are used to extremely salty, sweet or spicy food, so anything normal feels bland.
But it's not. And yes we do add salt on our meat, if needed. And pepper
I believe the fruit cocktail tree is worth a mention
As someone who lived in Anaheim, the knotts fact was fun to hear
Did I miss something? There is no mention of potatoes?
Yes, I noticed that. They've created more of those things than anything.
Boysenberry! Yes, Knott's Berry Farm's prime export continues to be celebrated!
Interesting as always
Are there any cultivated edible fruits or vegetables that are NOT man-made?
Durian?
No, any cultivated edible food has been selected to some extent.
Why have you been indoctrinated to believe that's bad? Man made isn't a very good term they've been bred to get more yield and better flavor. The breeding part is called nature and without it you'd probably be starving.
@Bla Bla: Actually none of these foods are truly "man-made". They've all been hybridized or grafted within their own species to improve them. The only foods that are truly "man-made" are those first created in laboratories, not in fields or gardens or greenhouses. GMOs are man-made because they've deliberately mixed genetic material from different species, including animals, humans, and marine life together with plants species and chemicals. BTW, for several years both Pepsi and Coca-Cola products have contained human placental tissue. Lemon-lime-flavored soft drinks (7-Up, Sprite, Fresca, and Mountain Dew) get their citrusy flavor from one of the same ingredients used to make anti-freeze. Aspartame (artificial "sweetener" used in diet foods, boxed cereals, and even children's vitamins) is a derivative of formaldehyde. If you care what you eat, it's a good idea to read labels, and look up any words (ingredients) you don't know or can't pronounce.
Personally? I have no problem with hybridized food. We would have very limited diet without it. But I don't eat anything that I don't exactly what's in it and where it came from.
Information is worth everything
Glad Knott's old neighbor's name wasn't something like Twiggin...
It's Tad Walledor!!!
Or Dingle.
Yum, I love almonds! Of course I've had dry cereal😂
Fruits and vegetables are all distinct as well as unique in their own ways. We appreciate the fact that we are receiving information we may not be fully aware of.
Love the narration! It made these food facts fun.
… ah. I just realised I watch this channel mostly for the usual narrator
ditto
100% agree! Sorry but Weird History isn't Weird History without our main guy. Feels like a different channel that I don't watch.
@@DPSFSUexactly
Thought I clicked on WatchMojo for a second.
Same
So basically all the fruits and vegetables that we eat on a daily basis is not as healthy as we assumed them to be 🤔
Literally the opposite of that lmao
wow horticulture is so cool i never knew
I subbed for og voice. Not bad. She sounds really familiar
I was wondering if you guys could make a video about the fries in McDonald’s?
Grow up people. She did a really good job. Lots of good info.
3:45 Atomic Gardening
As 90 million acres of corn are grown in the US annually, I assume the "284 metric tons" number provided at the end of this video is incorrect. Its probably closer to 284 million metric tons.
I love grapefruit but can't eat it because of the medication I'm on.. doesn't make sense, but I dutifully avoid it.
Personally, I think that the purple carrots taste better than the orange ones...
Yes, tomatoes are a fruit. ❤️😎
[Gros Michel bananas would be in the chat if they weren't destroyed by disease]
thanks for still making this video
👍👍👍
14:10 wow. thats a lot . so much.
I’m really surprised that these foods are manmade.
Some would argue that there was actually 4 original citrus plants; the pomelo, citron, mandarin, and the papeda. I've heard debates about the kumquat being a possible fifth, though I'm not sure how true that is. The way citrus plants cross pollinate is as fascinating as it is complex. Pomelos crossed with true mandarins and the result was a number of different oranges, include the sweet and butter oranges. These then would have crossed back with pomelos so that there were more pomelo genes than true mandarin, resulting in the many grape fruit types we have today. There are thousands and thousands of different citrus because of the loosy-goosy way citrus pollinate each other, and that number is still growing.
Papaya
This seems to be more, plants that are genetically modified, which is probably all foods we consume.
Organic or not, any person starving will eat anything edible
I laugh when people say nature's dessert. And people get mad when I say that fruits and vegetables aren't natural and aren't healthy. Most of them come from poisonous plants. So if all of this didn't exists before, then what were we eating?
I ate grapefruit withput sugar every morning growing up...
When you've already passed this class in Sam Onella's academy 😏
Same
Yes, when? Finish your sentence, please.
"MY HEART'S A-SEIZING! MY LUNGS A-WHEEZING! THE F*CKING WALLS ARE MELTING!"
Exactly which invasive species are the result of food engineering mistakes?
This is a bummer. Seems like an interesting topic...
Organic in no way means not artificially selected. It means either not using any synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, or made of carbon
Made of carbon? Like plants?
Economics of organic stuff also different as per guidelines set in place
The writing felt kind of off in this video
In my mind it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth
"or made of carbon" oh you mean like most if not all lifeforms on planet earth? including plants? you numbskull?
"Why does the classification matter?" Oh honey to agriculturists and botanists, _they don't_
How about doing a video on foods that are deadly if not processed? Processed foods are often referred to as unhealthy, but there are products we eat that would potentially kill us if not processed. I am not just thinking about Japanese fish.
When I lived in Indonesia, there were chips that were similar to potato chips in use, but as I remember it, the chips were made from a plant that was shredded and rinsed in lye to draw the poisonous ingredients out. Thereafter the result was turned into a powder and fried, sort of like Pringles.
This is all kind of Darwinian. Survival of the fittest, cultivation of the best
Thanks China, peaches are my favorite fruit
More 🙏 Content Daddy
And here is a list of other gmo fruits and veggies 😆
1:53 shout of to The International movie being referenced.
It’s a boring movie, but it’s also a conspiracy thriller that got thrown under the bus for being a little too honest about its plot.
Logan pollinated my Grapefruit Juice?
Toe-mates?🤦♂️No miss señorita, the Spanish would pronounce it toh-mah-tez more-or-less. Good video though. Julien De Berry is my new hero! 😆
I thought this was going to be about Franken Food.
Nice try but everybody know that peaches come in a can. They were put there by a man, in a factory downtown.
Weird.
You had me at "inbred"
Gotta love the Phoebe Cates !!
and oranges are the bastard child of pomelo and tangerine, or so I'm told...
FRANKENFOOD
It's easy to criticize a narrator and I agree I'm used to the guy but I'm more then willing to give her a chance because I like this channel
Plantains and the potato have nothing in common
I think what she meant is that they're starchy rather than sweet.
I prefer the normal narrator a lot more, however, this is the first Weird History Food video from the non-usual narrator that I don't instantly click off of.
I instantly clicked off
You want real organic food? Go plant the seeds in the ground, wait for spring to come, then be disappointed when nothing grows. And if something does grow, let’s hope you don’t get ecoli, ergot, mold, parasites or anything else.
Wtf. Do you work for Monsanto
@@spacekoalalove that’s classified
Fruit doesn't taste anything AT ALL like it use to! Fruit used to be like ice cream! There was no need to add sugar to strawberries because they were sooo juicy n good! Bananas don't even taste like bananas anymore!!!!
I like it when there’s a different narrator. Of course she might be not as good like our original guy but she trying her best to entertaining and educate in her own way
this 😌
Nobody likes a different narrator
I like how the narrator immediately contradicts herself saying carrots were grown only after 900, then goes back to the 6th century. Did nobody edit this script? Also, carrots date back to 3000 BC, not a thousand year ago or so.
It's not a contradiction at all, you're just not parsing it properly. The 6th century bullet point was the first written record of someone saying we should eat the undomesticated wild root. It wasn't until 900 (10th century) where they began to be domesticated (via artificial selection) worldwide.
Aztecs weren't around in Mexico 7000 years ago, and citrus did leave Asia through the Arab trade before European exploration, landing in present day Spain and Italy in the middle ages. Otherwise great video!
Mah-eeze not maize
Only Man is Truly Manmade
At the start of this video. I hope you realize that this is a very polarizing subject. Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) is often misunderstood. This area is very gray.
Corn, Wheat, Rice and other very essential abundant foods are derived from selective breeding.
The ugliest side of it all is how a lack of diversity can ruin a species of plant (bananas lost Gros Michel to Cavendish).
Everything was being bred to to offer the highest yields and make sure everyone was able eat.
Monsanto, ‘the company’ made it ugly. They used clinical research to make sure that their pesticides (custom made) but also called Roundup. Not only that, they ensured no viable seed for next crops unless you buy from them again.
Bayer just bought them. We all know how ethical Bayer is.
You do know that corn does not propagate by itself. This didn't happen on purpose, but was the result of cross propagating by people. This GMO craze is a way to make more profit, and has nothing to do with the safety of food. Always follow the money.
11:40 Tow-Mates? really? im surprised you were closer to pronouncing the nahuatl word than the spanish one.
You can avoid sugar on the grapefruit and just sprinkle salt on the top. Use natural sea salt to be healthier.
Really interesting vid.
New subscriber!
Thanks for this! 🍌 #WeirdHistoryFood #Fruit #FoodHistory
So, "gmo" isn't new? Unheard of...
Where’s the Guy!? 😢
I wish the narrating felt a bit more personal and connected, this video sounds/feels very professional and corporate to me
Well you guys, let's be fair. At least strawberries weren't made from some chemical mutation, but rather from natural crossbreeding practices.
I would like to know some history about Guinness Beer and how is turned into Guinness World Records!
Ha! Thats a great joke.
@kaleidoscope3564 I would too!
I don’t drink alcohol, but when I was traveling and this is my friend England, I tried my friends husband beer, which was Guinness. It didn’t make me break out in hives nor did I have a headache. 20 minutes after drinking some! I thought I would come home to America and I have the same experience and I was so wrong!😢
I don’t know what the differences between the two different Guinness beer sold in Europe versus in America, so whatever it is, it makes a huge difference in my body.💔
Without the work of thousands of years of selective breeding we would not be able to feed the world so lets all give a big cheer to plant breeders, an occupation most people don't realise even exists.
No offense intended but please bring back the original narrator.
Great video! I'll be showing it to my ag students when we cover biotechnology.
Nope...not watching this.
Lol you're so punny...
I will make this short for you , EVERYTHING YOU HAVE EVER EATEN , yes even that .
Frezier, is NOT strawberry in French 😒.
Close, sort of.
Strawberry in French is fraise.
I enjoy this narrator, also I cannot believe you grapefruited all over my screen. Incredible
Wrong
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Bring back Tom. I only subbed for his voice and Timeliness series (jokes) love all the content. Keep up the amazing research 👏
This simply doesn’t work without the narrator we are used to, at the end of the day he makes these videos interesting and funny
✝ Genesis 1:29
"And God said: 'Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed--to you it shall be for food;"
I would like to give thanks today for the regular narrator. Go ahead and make your nice concessions about how hard the other narrator tries to do a good job it has nothing to do with maintaining the characteristic and appeal of the original product so if you're here to look for something different than what weird history usually is then fine here you go Happy Thanksgiving
WTF is a "nice concession"? Tom Blank doesn't just do "a good job", he's a widely known voiceover, narration and announcing professional. His voice is part of the brand. His ability to deliver the occasional lackluster writing or poor research of Weird History in a clever way is miles ahead of this. People expressing their preference for the narrator is crucial for the channel to maintain their present level of income. The rest of your post is word salad. Happy Thanksgiving to you.
Stupid comment. Old narrator is way better.
@@Truckngirl you just repeated what I said are you sure you understood my comment? Because it sounds like we both like the older narrator I guess his name is Tom blank. We also both understand that he is a part of their brand and is a characteristic element of the product. How do you not know what nice concessions means in that case? Nice concessions as in when people try to say nice things about the younger female narrator, or how hard she tries, etc even though none of that makes a difference when we're talking about brand and product consistency and maintaining the aspects of it that characterize the product. So it's like the nice things are just to make her feel better or be showerly supportive and that's what makes them nice little concessions. Look it sounds like you interpreted my comment as me implying that I like the girl more than the guy even though I said I was thankful for the regular narrator as in Mr blank I guess oh whatever shoot
@@Truckngirl l2read
Delivery is ugh.. off there. Feels like this is for children or like.. PBS Eons 🤷♂️
You just not stoned enough bro
good video
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Cron, the only fruit of vegetable I actually enjoy
It's cron
Cron is (and probably always will be to me) a Unix scheduling utility...
Cron on the crob, crammed cron, cronbeard, cron fakes, poopcron, etc. My flavorites!
you're just like a dream...