When we go out shopping for the foods, we see them in a different manner than what they become when we cook and serve them. You might have thought at times that you do so much of hard work to make certain dishes. But, have you ever wondered how exactly a food looks like when it is being grown on the plants. You will indeed be surprised to know that before reaching the market and even before harvesting, many foods look really different from what we find when they reach the supermarkets. So, basically the journey of a food item that you thought started from the moment you purchased it to bring to your home, is actually just the final leg of the journey. Before that, the food item goes through some amount of cleaning, sorting and processing, and before that it is harvested from the plants. And today, we are going to show you how exactly do food items look like when they are on the plant that nurtured them. Be ready to be amazed:
The cashew tree grows to have the cashew apple and it is at the end of this apple, that there is a drupe which contains the seed which is the nut that we eat.
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The pistachio is actually a member of the casher family and here too, it is the seed which is generally eaten.
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The fruit beautifully sits on the plant, before it is separated so that it reaches the market.
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It is the flower on the plant from which a fruit a made by pollination and that fruit contains the flavoring element which we all love to savor in our food.
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The powerhouse dry fruit is grown on almond trees, which have the fruit on them as a drupe. The drupe contains an outer hull and a hard shell which basically encases the seed that we eventually enjoy as a healthy snack.
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One of the costliest spices of the world, saffron is derived from the flower, saffron crocus. The threads, which are basically the stigmas and styles of the flowers are sorted by hand and dried, before they are packed for usage to eventually give your food a regal color and taste.
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Doesn’t the Coffea plant look great with all the berries and flowers adorning the plant? We all love our morning cup of coffee, but never do we think about the origin of that magical cup that pretty much is the reason why most of us start our day with so much enthusiasm. So, here you go. This is from where coffee comes from and now we can be even more thankful to everyone who works hard so that we get the best coffee in our cups.
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The tree from which the spice is derived from the inner bark looks like this. Quite normal the tree looks like, right? But, the inner areas of the bark are what give us the much loved spice.
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Although, you must have seen a banana tree and even ripened bananas hanging from them, but you may not have seen how the bananas look before they are perfectly yellow to be eaten and savored.
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This much loved spice is derived from the berries which grow on the pepper plant. Don’t they look lovely here?
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The sweet fruit that you love to have grows on a flowering plant species in the palm family of Arecaceae. The fruits form as clusters on the stem and are later harvested to take out to the market.
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The seeds which have a very high oil content in them are actually the oldest oilseed crops known to humanity. The seeds are protected in a pod, which only open up when the seeds ripen. Now you see, there is so much that goes into bringing the foods to the market. It should then be our duty to do justice to the hard work of nature and people who work to let us have the food items the way we want, by making good use of the foods and never waste them.
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