Humans created these fruits and vegetables through selective and cross-breeding, creating new varieties of desired traits, including appearance and flavor.
Without human intervention, we wouldn’t have had the sweet apple people enjoy today. Additionally, there are more than 7,500 known varieties of apples.
Broccoli is a man-made edible green vegetable in the cabbage family that resulted from the sixth-century BCE breeding of Brassica oleracea crops in the Mediterranean.
Bananas are a cross between the Musa acuminata and Musa balbisiana bananas, neither of which are edible alone. The latter has too many seeds despite its sweetness.
Corn accounts for the vast majority of crops grown in America today and the majority of what Americans eat. Without human cultivation and protection, corn would not survive.