30 Surprising Pics That Show How Food Looks Before It’s Harvested

Not sure what I was expecting.. but not that ! o_o

I thought they grew on buns!

I don't know what I thought sesame seeds came from but it wasn't this.

Almost looks like okra

Haha I wish we knew these things when we were young. It is a weed in my place. Some Place in Africa, Kenya.

When we lived in Kenya and Tanganiyka,,we grew them in our garden, just be for they were ripe,we collected them and boiled them until soft, then we would sit outside in a circle peel them to eat.yummy! Everyone for themself.

impressive

Great post. Peanuts are my fav. Lived in Portales, NM, Once know as the Valencia Peanut Capital of the US. The BEST peanut butter!, and roasted in the shell!

For those questioning the first photo. I doubt they were grown on the rocks for cropping, but they are planted as a non-crop grown cover as well. Here is a photo of a flowering peanut plant with young pods. Peanut-pla...8a4ca1.jpg

Ah, now I understand why it's called "earth nuts" (jordnødder) in danish :)

I heard somewhere that they test the cranberries (to make sure they're good) by bouncing them! O.o

Yep, because the cranberries actually have little pockets of air inside, which is why they float.

THESE I have actually seen .I lived in Massachusetts and saw them growing and after they were harvested floating in the bogs..Pretty cool.

I love everything about cranberries how they look, how they grow, how they taste and they are very good for your health.

Is this a manmade plantage? And where do they grow? Its a pity that it is so hard to find cranberries without added sugar..

you can eat the yellow fruit just above the cashew nut , its very tasty. Very popular in south India, where village kids throw stones at these to eat cashew fruits .. the yellow / orange/ red (very ripe and sweet ) fruit bit and then collect the raw cashew (green nut) in bulk and sell them to the local trader for money. Or you can bbq them in fire , it release a puss before the cashew inside gets toasted , which you then open and eat. Guess thats why cashew nuts are expensive.

can we eat the upper part?

And the fruit is so tasty!

The flesh is also edible, although can be tangy

Thank you for all the post and the picture. I am amazed!

I'm from Iran,so this one was not a surprise to me.Actually we also eat it like this(I mean when it is not ripe yet)and it's delicious.

You can see here how they are related to another kissing cousin of poison ivy. That being the mango tree.

You gotta get them off the trees before the worms get to them!

Beautiful looking pods.

This doesn't explain why pistachios are so expensive.

dem pretty flowers

Apparently people only call it cocoa because some merchants made a spelling mistake

before to becoming in 'chocolate'.

REALLY?

Cacao is the fruit that chocolate is made of. The fruit contains "nuts" that are dried and roasted. from them cacao butter is made and with it chocolate is made.

The first pic looks like someone just placed a pineapple on top of a random plant

I believe if you plant them like this from the fruit itself it takes about seven years to bear fruit. :D

Never seen this before

It looks like the plant had a baby pineapple

Mine typically take 2, sometimes even 3 years to produce a fruit but it's an awesome process to see the plant change!