Here are the top 17 foods to harvest. It's crazy, you would not even know!

Every day we see on the shelves of supermarkets or used in food products such as peanuts, cashews, pistachios, almonds. They are insanely delicious, and, moreover, is incredibly useful. I wonder: Have you ever, where does cinnamon, how to grow pineapple or kiwi fruit where collected? I bet many of us even have no idea how all these popular products look before you get to the store shelf, or to us at the table.

Today decided to shed light on the mysteries of nature and show you something special. This is an excellent selection of well-known food before harvest. Now, then you will know exactly the origin of the fragrant vanilla and black pepper. The mind boggles, finally, you think about it, once again opening the package with your favorite herbs and spices. You live - and learn!

Almonds This product is often mistakenly considered to nuts, but actually it is a kind of plum stone fruit.





Cinnamon This is the name of an evergreen tree of the family laurel. This is often called, and the bark of this tree, which is used worldwide as a spice. Most often, it goes on sale in the form of a hammer, at least - in the form of a rolled-up pieces of bark.



Safran Did you know that in fact, fragrant bright orange spice is obtained from the crocus - beautiful flower purple? The fact that for the production of saffron opredelnie use only part of the flower - its snout.





Pineapple Admit it, you're whole life I thought that pineapples grow on the palms. Today we dispel this myth for you. Pineapple - genus of herbaceous plants of the family Bromeliads. As you can see, growing the fruit is not as you imagined.





Tea Tree Yes, it did indeed exist. Such trees Myrtaceae family widespread in Australia. Flowers and fruits They are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry as an antiseptic expectorant and aromatherapy.



Peanuts It is unlikely that you know that the Greek name of this delicacy is translated as "spider." Most of the species of this genus growing in Brazil, and only peanut (also often called groundnuts) is cultivated in Europe, Asia, Africa.





Coffee One of the most famous varieties of coffee - Arabica grows at altitudes ranging from 900 m to 2 km above sea level. Grains of coffee tree berries often have an elongated shape, smooth surface, and a slightly curved line down the middle in the form of an English letter S. Can you imagine once imagine that the primary form of your favorite drink looks like?





Kiwi Incidentally, this fruit is so named not by accident. Very much a product of the shape resembles the shape of the body birds with long beak, which is called the same. Kiwi is sometimes called "Chinese gooseberry».





Vanilla Have you ever imagined how all taken your favorite spice? So, you will be amazed, but vanilla - is a genus of perennial vines of the orchid family. And the fruits of these vines is used around the world in various industries.





Sesame You'll be shocked to see how growing sesame (small seeds on your favorite biscuits). In the food industry the most important plants of the genus is the sesame - valuable oil plant.



Cashew In life, I would not have thought that my favorite nuts are rising so. By the way, the stalk, which is so reminiscent of a pear, eat, too.





Mango This product is considered to be the homeland of Myanmar, and Pakistan and India, mangoes and all positioned as a national plant. These fruits have a fibrous structure and sweet taste. Their peel is painted in tones of red, green or yellow.



Cocoa You probably loved in childhood cocoa that your grandmother used to cook. However, you could not even think, where does this miracle powder, used to prepare a delicious drink. Now all the mysteries revealed: cocoa beans (of which turns the famous powder) growing on the tree of the same name. Most often, such a plant can be found in subequatorial regions of South America.





Black pepper Your limit would not surprise when you find out that black pepper - is a perennial climbing plant. Nothing to do with the famous vegetables - bell peppers, which we love to grow in the country, it has not. The spice derived from these fruits used in cooking in the form of a hammer and peas.



Pistachio You can not imagine my life without pistachios? And you know where are your favorite nuts? As you can see, they grow on an evergreen tree or shrub of the same name. Pistachios are also found in the Mediterranean, in Africa and Asia, and some of them even grow in Central America.



Well, as you selection? So you can live for half a century and had no idea that pineapples do not grow on the palms and cinnamon - a bark of a tree. We hope you learned a lot of interesting things. So why not share with your friends that article, that they learned something new for yourself?

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