Greeny’s Fruit and their facts

Green fruits and vegetables are packed with vitamins and minerals including potassium, magnesium, folate and more. These are important for growth and muscle development.They are important for bones and teeth strength.

Their consumption is not only essential for the health and maintenance of body but they actually make your skin look radiant, young and glowing as fruits are full of anti-oxidants.Tomatoes are a fruit And they are the most popular fruit in the whole world.The confusion about whether it was a fruit or a vegetable arose after the 1890s when the US Supreme Court named them a vegetable for tax reasons.

In October 1995, NASA and a university in the US collaborated to help grow the ever first veggie in space is called as potato.Grapefruit can cause dangerous reactions with some prescription medications.The leaves of the rhubarb plant are extremely poisonous.The leaves contain kidney-damaging and potentially fatal amounts of oxalic acid, “a chemical compound found in bleach, metal cleaners and anti-rust products.” But the stalks are totally safe to eat, which, thank goodness, because they sure make tasty.Most vegetables need warm weather to grow. Some vegetables, like spinach, lettuce, carrots and turnips, can grow in cold weather.

Vegetable plants develop flowers and form seeds if you let them. We usually eat them before they get the chance to make flowers.

The part of broccoli you eat is actually baby flowers that haven’t opened yet. Once the flowers open, the broccoli tastes bitter.

Vegetables are grown from seeds.

Credits: Jothika

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