It’s probably happened to you: You’re strolling through the produce section at the supermarket, perhaps underwhelmed with the flavor of the Fuji apples you’ve been getting lately, or finding that the ...
We grew up relishing so many fruits without particularly knowing their real names, as such, names were coined or simply invented for these fruits. Yet, that doesn’t rule out the fact that these fruits ...
It used to be that a peach was a peach and a plum was a plum, and that was it. Now, however, breeders are coming up with complex hybrids between species, such as fruits that are a combination of ...
Yes, it has a strange name. No, you most likely haven’t heard of it before. And yes, it is definitely a fruit you need to know. It’s Gac fruit (Momordica cochinchinensis), a strange and beautiful red ...
We all grew up seeing these fruits around the corner of the street, but did you know their English names? Some fruits that originated in West Africa were either given a traditional name or an invented ...
Bryan Nelson is a science writer and award-winning documentary filmmaker with over a decade of experience covering technology, astronomy, medicine, animals, and more. You have to commend the bravery ...
The government in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat has decided to change the name of dragon fruit as it feels the original name is associated with China, drawing derision ...