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- Durum wheat's endosperm is this color...
- This oil's sales doubled from 1985 to 1990. As info on other oil's health hazards emerged.
- Female pigs sniff for this fungus...
- Growing crops to feed these requires nearly half of the United States' water supply and 80 percent of its agricultural land.
- This seaweed production is 88% of total seaweed produced.
- Hybrid of a tangerine and either a pomelo or a grapefruit...
- Carrots, parsnips, fennel, dill and celery are members of this herb's family...
- Beets originated in these regions of Europe, Africa and the Near East...
- A very tall, prolific tree gives as this very large bumpy green fruit that is always cooked before eating. It is named after a staple.
- After drying for a few hours this bark curls up.
- India grows 21,385,000,000 pounds of these per year...
- Native to Asia. Earlier and less familiar varieties were small, white and resembled bird's eggs.
- Seaweed production soaks up a good amount of this...
- There are 3 types of mustard seed, yellow, brown and black. Which is used to make powdered mustard?
- ADHD symptoms have been linked to pesticides, preservatives and artificial food...
- This William started making ice cream in Philadelphia in 1866. A bit later another William (Dreyer) founded an ice cream company on the west coast.
- There have been large deposits of these creatures shells found in the Mediterranean region as far back as 20000 BP. Possibly early man's first cultivated/domesticated animal.
- When durum wheat is ground into flour it is known as this...
- They used to be dyed red to hide stains on the shells. Now they are machine picked so are rarely dyed.
- Florida oranges are thinner skinned and juicier than this state's oranges, which are thicker skinned, drier but vibrantly more orange colored...
- The French eat over 900 million of these a year...
- Poultry legs are dark because muscles that are exercised frequently -- such as the legs — need more, and therefore hold more...
- Breeds with white ear lobes lay white eggs, those with red ear lobes lay brown eggs...
- Which nut, first cultivated in South America, is really a legume?
- Tomatoes, potatoes and eggplant are in this family...
- Named after the capital city of Peru...
- This evergreen shrub can live for a hundred years and reach 50 feet in height, but for cultivation its height is kept below four feet... It needs a tropical or semi-tropical climate and at least 50 inches of rain per year...
- Does not produce any fruit for the first ten years, does not reach full maturity until at least 30 years, can live as long as 3000 years...
- This lettuce was used as a spoon by the Greeks. Native to the Greek island of Cos, but named after an Italian city.
- There are four main types of lettuce - all with hundreds of varieties in each. The four categories are head lettuce, romaine, butterhead and ...
- A seed that contain trace amounts of morphine...
- An adverse immune system reaction to gluten...
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- What fruit is named after a bird?
- The white of the egg is called the...
- They grow watermelons in glass boxes so they come out square in...
- What nut's name means 'foreign nut'.
- Tomatoes stored in the refrigerator will lose their...
- This molasses is from the third boiling of sugarcane and has numerous B vitamins and minerals...
- Until the mid-1970s there was no nationwide brand of ... sauce.
- Domestication originated in Anatolia thousands of years ago. Today there are 5000 varieties. Currently the U.S. grows a bit more than 10% of global output...
- This 20 foot tall plant can only produce one large bunch of fruit per year -- but cut it down, and a new tree will grow from its roots.
- Today, it is in fashion, to refer to marine algae used as food as...
- Early Americans used almost 3,000 different plants as...
- This color carrot did not appear until the 1700s when Dutch plant breeders bred them to match the Dutch flag...
- This rice has the vitamins and minerals from the bran and germ forced back into it.
- The hot pepper "from Havana"...
- The carrot has only been orange for about two hundred years. The first ones were yellow and ...
- In 16th Century England, the wealthy ate on pewter plates. Due to the tomato's high acid content some of the lead in the pewter plates leached out, causing lead poisoning death. So, up to 1880 tomatoes were considered...
- In this country 90% of the total agricultural area is used for rice production.
- What yields the highest number of calories per unit area than any other plant...
- The word "agar" comes from the Malay word agar-agar meaning...
- Poor man's saffron...
- Salt changes the boiling and freezing temperatures of water. Does salt raise or lower the boiling point of water.
- Japanese soy sauce...
- What country produces well over twice as many tomatoes as the U.S. produces?
- Flint corn or Indian corn is still used for making hominy and...
- After rice and wheat this is the third largest source of calories in the world...
- This popular bulb was not grown in the U.S. prior to 1940...
- A natural mutation (due to a recessive gene) of the peach.
- Also known as an alligator pear -- native to Central America. They stay hard while on the tree and ripen after picking...
- A hearty and ancient (the first domesticated grain in the Near East) low gluten grass. The fourth most commonly grown cereal in the world.
- You can still eat this nourishing food even if it is thousands of years old...
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