Tag: Man made food

While it's a common belief that broccoli is a completely natural food, the broccoli we eat today was actually developed through centuries of human-guided selective breeding from a wild cabbage plant. This fascinating origin, however, does not diminish its status as a perfectly real and healthy vegetable.

Tracing its lineage back 6,000 years to a bitter wild plant in the Caucasus, modern lettuce is a stark contrast to its ancestor. This fascinating evolution raises the fundamental question: is lettuce natural or man-made, and how much has human selection shaped it?