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OK, the ‘Modern fruit has been made unnaturally sugary by humans & is thus unhealthy’ claims are storming on into Sunday.
Many are using this comparison of wild vs modern bananas to support the idea that this *must* be true.
Here’s what the science says...
#BotanistToTheRescue
Many are using this comparison of wild vs modern bananas to support the idea that this *must* be true.
Here’s what the science says...
#BotanistToTheRescue
Let’s start with the ‘modern’ claim.
The hybridisation event that created the types of banana we know today happened millennia ago.
*Some* evidence suggests at least 5,000 years, in fact.
So they aren’t *that* modern, really. Unless woolly mammoths are also ‘modern’.
The hybridisation event that created the types of banana we know today happened millennia ago.
*Some* evidence suggests at least 5,000 years, in fact.
So they aren’t *that* modern, really. Unless woolly mammoths are also ‘modern’.
This hybridisation was not the result of human engineering, but thought to be a chance event that occurred in the wild.
You see, plants hybridise naturally in the wild all the time.
So not a human creation. We were just smart enough to value it.
You see, plants hybridise naturally in the wild all the time.
So not a human creation. We were just smart enough to value it.
