Food & Drink Agriculture
Food & Drink
What we eat and drink, where it comes from, and why it matters.
Food & Drink Agriculture
Apples don't grow true from seed — every variety is a graft of one original tree
Food & Drink Nutrition
MSG is the same glutamate that's naturally in tomatoes, cheese and breast milk
Food & Drink Cuisine
Umami, the fifth basic taste, was pinned down in 1908 from a bowl of kelp broth
Food & Drink Agriculture
Vanilla is the second-priciest spice because every flower is pollinated by hand
Food & Drink Beverages
Champagne is bottled at car-tyre pressure - and the bubbles are a second fermentation
Food & Drink Nutrition
Most animals make their own vitamin C - humans carry a broken copy of the gene
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