Where food comes from
By Alice Mansfield and Isaac
Wood.
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potatoes
• Potatoes are grown in Russia, Europe, France,
Germany, Poland and Canada. AM
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carrots
People first grew carrots as medicine not food ,
for a variety of ailments.Iw
Broccoli
• Broccoli came from Antwerp
Onions
• The exact origin of the onion is
unknown, although ancient
texts dating back to 3000 B.C.
reveal that it was first grown in
parts of Asia . Around this
period it was also grown in
China and later also in India .
From there it must have been
taken to Greece and Egypt,
because it appears frequently
in decorations and
hieroglyphics in the pyramids.
Onions were also used by the
Greeks and the Romans. Iw.
Tomatoes
The tomato in its original form,
however, was not the prolific red globe
we know and love today. It was a
small, fragrant fruit (picture a cherry
tomato) that the Native Americans
ground up and combined with ahi, a
kind of chili pepper, to make a spicy
sauce. While Native Americans had
been consuming them for centuries,
tomatoes quickly gained a bad
reputation in the Americas. Colonists
believed tomatoes to be poisonous,
and virtually no one of European
descent dared eat the fruit until the
early 19th century for fear of death.