If you like your carrots orange, potatoes yellow and apricots peach, you may be in for a surprise when you should at UK high-end retailer Marks & Spencer. Food technologists are creating new varieties of your favorite fruits and vegetables.
Marks & Spencer will very soon be stocking their shelves with the new foods that include Black Velvet Apricots (they look like plums), Crème de Lite carrots (which are a pale cream color), Mayan Twilight potatoes (that have purple stripes), Flower Sprout (a cross between curly kale and Brussels sprouts), Baby Lemons (smaller but more attractive), and Tiny Tangerines (smaller in size).
Surprisingly none of the ‘new’ fruits and vegetables are grown in a lab or are genetically modified. They’re all grown on a traditional farm using selective breeding, which involves the careful crossing of different plants.
Food technologist Hugh Mowatt told The Daily Mail that new foods have always been bred this way, and what we now consider as “normal” was not always so in the past.
Tags: Fruits“Quite often people don’t realize that things they think of as ‘natural’ have been bred that way,” Mowatt told the British newspaper. “There was no such thing as an orange carrot until 400 years ago when the Dutch wanted a vegetable in their national color, and bred the one we now recognize as our favorite.”
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