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Next time you bite into a slice of watermelon or a cob of corn,
consider this: these familiar fruits and veggies didn’t always look and
taste this way.

Genetically modified foods, or GMOs, inspire strong reactions
nowadays, but humans have been tweaking the genetics of our favourite
produce for millennia.

While GMOs may involve splicing genes from other organisms (such as
bacteria) to give plants desired traits – like resistance to pests,
selective breeding is a slower process whereby farmers select and grow
crops with those traits over time.

From bananas to eggplant, here are some of the foods that looked
totally different before humans first started growing them for food.

(via Here’s What Fruits And Vegetables Looked Like Before We Domesticated Them – ScienceAlert)