{"id":38914,"date":"2017-06-13T03:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38914"},"modified":"2017-06-12T09:54:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:54:15","slug":"vegetable-impostors-on-your-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/13\/vegetable-impostors-on-your-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetable impostors on your table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vegetable pushers are clever: they can disguise vegetables in such a way that you don&#8217;t realize where they came from. A prime set of examples are all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/these-6-common-vegetables-are-actually-all-the-same-plant-species\" target=\"_blank\">variations of a common Mediterranean weed called <em>Brassica oleracea<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38915\" style=\"width: 726px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a data-id=\"38915\" href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Wild-Mustard-variants-on-your-table.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38915\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Wild-Mustard-variants-on-your-table-716x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"716\" height=\"640\" class=\"size-large wp-image-38915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Wild-Mustard-variants-on-your-table-716x640.jpg 716w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Wild-Mustard-variants-on-your-table-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Wild-Mustard-variants-on-your-table-480x429.jpg 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Wild-Mustard-variants-on-your-table-768x686.jpg 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Wild-Mustard-variants-on-your-table.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 716px) 100vw, 716px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to see full-size image<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>Brassica<\/em> is also known as the wild mustard plant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The wild plant is a weedy little herb that prefers to grow on limestone outcroppings all around the coastal Mediterranean region,&#8221; Jeanne Osnas, a researcher at Purdue University who blogs as &#8220;The Botanist in the Kitchen,&#8221; writes of <em>Brassica oleracea<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a biennial plant that uses food reserves stored over the winter in its rosette of leaves to produce a spike of a few yellow flowers at the end of its second summer before dying. Those nutritious leaves make its domesticated derivatives important food crops in much of the world now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This one plant was selectively bred over hundreds of years to create dozens of wildly different vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>By selecting and breeding plants with bigger leaves, or larger buds, the various cultivars were created.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The amazing evolution of <em>Brassica oleracea<\/em> goes to show that humans have been tinkering with the genetics of our food &#8211; creating what are now known as genetically modified foods, or GMOs &#8211; for a very long time.<\/p>\n<p>New lab techniques just let us do that in a more precise and directed way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vegetable pushers are clever: they can disguise vegetables in such a way that you don&#8217;t realize where they came from. A prime set of examples are all variations of a common Mediterranean weed called Brassica oleracea: Brassica is also known as the wild mustard plant. &#8220;The wild plant is a weedy little herb that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,16],"tags":[827,369],"class_list":["post-38914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-science","tag-genetics","tag-interesting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-a7E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38917,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38914\/revisions\/38917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}