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Throughout recorded history, the rich have been able to afford a varied diet including meat, vegetables and fruit, but for poor people, meat was a luxury and the food they ate was very dull, typically comprising mainly some staple product made from rice, rye, barley, wheat, millet or maize. The addition of vegetable matter provided some variety ...
Vegetables Chile 1801 Bent's water crackers produced by G. H. Bent Company, one of the earliest branded foods. [85] Grains USA 1802 First modern production process for dried milk was invented by the Russian physician Osip Krichevsky in 1802. The first commercial production of dried milk was organized by the Russian chemist M. Dirchoff in 1832.
List of vegetables; Local food – Food produced within a short distance of where it is consumed; Neolithic Revolution – Transition in human history from hunter-gatherer to settled peoples; New World crops – Crops native to the New World
1700 – British Agricultural Revolution ends 1763 – International "Potato Show" in Paris with corn varieties from different states; 1804 – Vincenzo Dandolo writes several treatises of agriculture and sericulture.
Northern highbush blueberry. A number of popular and commercially important food plants are native to the Americas.Some are endemic, meaning they occur naturally only in the Americas and nowhere else, while others occur naturally both in the Americas and on other continents as well.
Timeline of cultivation Date Crops Location 8000 BCE [5] Squash: Oaxaca, Mexico: 8000–5000 BCE [6] Potato: Peruvian and Bolivian Andes 6000–4000 BCE [7] Peppers: Bolivia 5700 BCE [5] [8] Maize: Guerrero, Mexico 5500 BCE [9] Peanut: South America 5000 BCE [10] Avocado: Mexico c. 4200 BCE [11] Sea-island cotton: Peru 4000 BCE Common bean ...
Cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the family Brassicaceae (also called Cruciferae) with many genera, species, and cultivars being raised for food production such as cauliflower, cabbage, kale, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mustard plant and similar green leaf vegetables.
The timeline displays a graphical representation of the adaptations; the text attempts to explain the nature and robustness of the evidence. Plant evolution is an aspect of the study of biological evolution , predominantly involving evolution of plants suited to live on land, greening of various land masses by the filling of their niches with ...