3-Do You Know-Miscellaneous
Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed,
cooked, or in any other form except fresh.
The only vegetable or fruit that
is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but
fresh: Lettuce
Of all the vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several growing
seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are those only two
perennial vegetables?
Asparagus and Rhubarb.
What Fruit has Its Seeds on its Outside?
Strawberry. (see "Why Tomato is a Fruit?" - see below)
Why Tomato is a Fruit
Do you know that tomato is not a vegetable, but a fruit?
To really figure out if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable, you need to
know what makes a fruit a fruit, and a vegetable a vegetable. To differentiate
between them ask yourself a question, "Does it have seeds inside?"
If the answer is yes, then technically, that is a FRUIT. This, therefore, makes
your tomato a fruit. This situation also makes cucumbers, squash, green beans
and walnuts etc all fruits as well. Vegetables, such as, radishes, celery, carrots,
and lettuce do NOT have seeds and that is why they are grouped as vegetables.
Now don't go looking for tomatoes next to the oranges in your grocery stores;
fruits like tomatoes and green beans are usually (alas, incorrectly) referred
to as "vegetables" in most grocery stores and cookbooks.
Source(s):
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090829123631AAtcIja
Although Knowledge tells us that tomato is a fruit, but Wisdom stops us to
mix it in fruit salad.
Strawberry is the only fruit whose seeds grow on the outside.
The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand
of man - it has to be cut to fruit.
The bamboo, the reed and the banana trees bear fruit only to perish and not to
grow further in size.
The lettuce is the only vegetable which cannot be frozen, or ....
Carrots - Purple or Orange?
Before the 17th century almost all cultivated carrots were purple. The modern
day orange carrot wasn't cultivated until Dutch growers in the late 16th century
took mutant strains of the purple carrot and gradually developed them into the
sweet, plump, orange variety we have today. Before this, pretty much all carrots
were purple with mutated versions occasionally popping up including yellow and
white carrots. These were rarely cultivated and lacked the purple pigment
anthocyanin. It is thought that the modern day orange carrot was developed by
crossing the mutated yellow and white rooted carrots as well as varieties of
wild carrots, which are quite distinct from cultivated varieties. Some think
that the reason why the orange carrot became so popular in the Netherlands was
in tribute to the emblem of the House of Orange and the struggle for Dutch
independence. This could be, but it also might just be that the orange carrots
that the Dutch developed were sweeter tasting and more fleshy than their purple
counterparts, thus providing more food per plant and being better tasting.
They get their yellow-orange color from beta-carote. Beta-carotene metabolizes
in the human gut from bile salts into Vitamin A.
In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle.
The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any
way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?
It grows inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are
small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the
entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
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