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Here is an article depicting a couple other fruits and vegetables pre/post domestication.

https://www.sciencealert.com/fruits-vegetables-before-domest...

My favorite was learning the carrots weren't originally orange but purple or white. Corn may be shocking to people. In my opinion the banana has many similarities to the watermelon in terms of the "holes" and filling out post domestication.



At least at the US West coast I've been frequently buying bundles of carrots that included purple, yellow and white (pale yellow?) carrots.


And about watermelon specifically, with a different painting (Giuseppe Recco's Still Life With Fruit 1634-1695) showing a modern melon:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/08/150821-water...


> Corn may be shocking to people.

It did shock me. That's an even more obscene enlargement than wild grass into polyploid wheat.


White carrots are still around but they are kind of 'less' carrots and are used to feed the pigs.


Interesting. Where I’m from white carrots are absolutely for human consumption. So much so that I can’t even imagine a proper Sunday chicken soup without some.


Its not that I haven't seen white or purple carrots, rather learning they were bred to be orange for royalty.




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