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The wild squirting cucumber fires seeds in a pressurized jet that can send them roughly thirty feet away, without any animal's help.
Vegetables Word Search
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broccoliFind to reveal
Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale are all the same wild plant, reshaped by farmers over thousands of years.
zucchiniFind to reveal
A zucchini is really an immature summer squash, harvested young; left on the vine it swells into a giant marrow.
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Early European eggplants included small white fruits shaped like eggs, giving the vegetable a name that purple varieties still carry.
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Sailors once ate cabbage fermented as sauerkraut on long voyages; its vitamin C helped keep deadly scurvy away.
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Spinach can grow in cold weather, and winter varieties make extra sugar that helps protect their leaves from freezing.
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Giant pumpkins can outweigh small cars, but ordinary pumpkins are mostly water, making their enormous size less solid than it seems.
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Carrots were once purple, white, or yellow; Dutch growers bred the sweet orange kind we know around the late 1500s.
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In 1995 the potato became the first vegetable grown in space, on a NASA experiment aboard the shuttle Columbia.
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The tomato is botanically a fruit, but in 1893 the US Supreme Court ruled it a vegetable for tax purposes.
True stories · Bunol, Spain
The town that throws tomatoes
Every August the small town of Bunol, Spain, turns bright red for La Tomatina. Trucks deliver ripe tomatoes, and participants pelt each other for an hour, squashing the fruit before throwing it. The tradition is said to have begun in 1945, when young people at a parade grabbed tomatoes from a stall. It survived bans and a wonderfully fitting protest: in 1957 supporters held a mock funeral for a tomato. The fight eventually gained official acceptance. Today the soft fruit flies through crowded streets, followed by a tremendous cleanup. A parade scuffle became a festival where the ammunition is produce and the aftermath needs a hose.
The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
Mark Twain
Trivia
What plant part do we eat when we eat a carrot or radish?
The root.
Which leafy green vegetable shares its name and fame with the cartoon sailor Popeye?
Spinach.
In 1893 the US Supreme Court ruled that this botanical fruit counted as a vegetable for tariff purposes. Which one?
The tomato.
What scale measures how hot a chili pepper is?
The Scoville scale.
Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale were all bred from one wild species. What family does it belong to?
The mustard or cabbage family (Brassicaceae).
Trivia · 1 / 5
What plant part do we eat when we eat a carrot or radish?
The root.
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A potato in orbit
In October 1995 potato cuttings produced tiny tubers in space. Researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison teamed up with NASA to send potato cuttings containing a leaf, bud and stem aboard the space shuttle Columbia, tucked into a small plant chamber. For sixteen days astronauts watched as the cuttings sprouted tiny tubers comparable in size and structure to those grown in a matching chamber on Earth. The quiet experiment proved that crops could form food in weightlessness, an early step toward feeding astronauts on long missions to the Moon and Mars. A backyard staple had quietly become a pioneer of space farming.
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
Shirley Conran
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Sources: La Tomatina origins (History.com) · Potato tuber growth aboard STS-73 (NASA research report) · Why are carrots orange? (Live Science) · Brassica oleracea, one species (Live Science)
Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.