Fun Facts About Fruits and Vegetables For Kids

Did you know that there are purple potatoes? Do you want to get this color from berries such as blueberries, blackberries, blackcurrants, and anthocyanins that are also found in purple or black carrots? These anthocyanins have strong antioxidant properties and protect us from cancer. Poor potatoes were not accepted in Europe when they were first introduced to one French town in the 15th century, and they were considered [incorrectly] to cause leprosy, thus prohibiting potato cultivation. Later, the French queen Marie Antoinette and her court ladies wore potato flowers in their hair.

Crossing the English Channel, a woman of James I [James VI of Scotland] decorated carrots on her hair. You can eat the top of carrots because it is rich in vitamin K, which is not contained in carrots. Purple and red carrots are wonderful and taste sweeter than orange carrots. There are yellow carrots, but all the carrots were purple until the Dutch in the 16th century bred orange carrots from mutant carrots in honor of the orange royal family.

Broccoli and cauliflower are actually flowers, but they are eaten as vegetables. George W. Bush hates broccoli.

The fresh peas were so expensive that the peas were dried and eaten by European farmers. They kept them for several months in the dry winter and even when they began to eat fresh peas in the UK in the 17th century, ordinary people could not buy them. When Catherine de 'Medici left Italy to marry Henri II in France, she Picerinoberri with her. These are small peas that French people picked up immediately, and they are called petit pores [small peas], whose names are still known today. Anonymous rhymes about the difficulty of eating fresh green peas are:

"I eat beans with honey,

I've been doing so far.

Interesting taste of peas,

But it keeps them on my knife. "

Did you know that Norma Jean Baker, well-known as actress Marilyn Monroe, was elected Queen Artichoke in Castroville, California in 1947? Artichokes grow on plants that look like thistles and are considered gourmet vegetables. It originally came from Italy and the head of the plant is pointing towards the sun just like a sunflower.

In South India, eggplants cooked in flames with onions, chili, salt, and rice are believed to interfere with catching water chicken. Eggplant or eggplant is related to tomato and potato.

Fruits are also interesting. For example, the skin looks like a scaled snake [or looks like scales], so there is a snake fruit called this. The fruit itself is actually white like a lychee.

Bananas are not really from trees, but they are very tall herbs that can grow up to about 20 feet high. These plants do not have a very stable root system, so you can actually kill banana trees.

One apple a day contains most nutrients, so it can keep your doctor away, especially if you eat the skin. Over 7,000 apples are grown all over the world, and trying to plant 100 apple trees from seeds taken from one apple tree apple is not exactly the same.

Tomatoes are the fruits of what we use as vegetables and were once thought of as “wolf peaches” written by ancient Roman writers. The wolf peach was not a peach at all, but it looked beautiful and contained poison that killed the wolf you ate.

The only fruit with seeds outside is strawberries!

There are more interesting things to discover about fruits and vegetables, but they are not as boring as you think.