Bananas are similarly radical in their domestic changes.
The original bananas are almost all seed, with very little flesh. In the bananas we eat, there's so much flesh and so little seed that it's impossible for the trees to reproduce naturally - we humans grow new trees from cuttings.
MaurerOpinion on January 2nd, 2020 at 00:15 UTC »
Pretty-much all the Grains, Fruits and Vegetables we grow for food look and taste nothing like their original natural forms.
CurlSagan on January 2nd, 2020 at 00:42 UTC »
Corn was very different back when it was free-roaming and would run across the plains in large herds that spanned from horizon to horizon.
JulianLynx on January 2nd, 2020 at 01:16 UTC »
Bananas are similarly radical in their domestic changes.
The original bananas are almost all seed, with very little flesh. In the bananas we eat, there's so much flesh and so little seed that it's impossible for the trees to reproduce naturally - we humans grow new trees from cuttings.