Origins of Fruits and Vegetables
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2019
- In this video, we look at the geographic origins of our fruits and vegetables.
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Apparently kiwis are called kiwifruit in New Zealand and Australia as well, my mistake.
The oldest winery is in Armenia not Georgia
Same here in the UK though people abbreviate as we always do, like if someone says sprouts in the UK everyone knows they mean Brussels sprouts.
That said, this is all surely an origin of cultivation as far as we know it. I find it hard to believe that a raspberry or blackberry, for example, was not spread all over by birds since that's kinda what they to do and certain other fruits would be spread by animals on foot, though much slower, relatively speaking. Also, by now fruit and veg have been purposefully bred by us humans so that many do not resemble the original wild versions, eg white carrots, non-sterile bananas, less apple/grape varieties and so on.
beat me to it by 8 hours
@@avedji www.archaeology.ws/2004-1-2.htm This is just what I had read
All fruits and vegetables were created by God. If you don't believe in God, stop eating them.
Goddamn it, who would've thought that a video about frickin fruits and vegtibles can be so informative and fun to watch? You are an absolute legend Justin
Thank you!
@@Fireoflearning No, thank you for all your hard work sir, keep it up!
@@Fireoflearning Can u make a video on where spiders originate from and maybe the impact spiders have had on ancient culture religion and politics thank you.
@@joshi3518 Interesting idea, quite possibly yes
Freakin absolutely
1:11
Eh, regarding blueberries...
There's a difference between vaccinium corymbosum and vaccinium myrtillus...
Yes, vaccinium corymbosum is native to North America only, however vaccinium myrtillus is common in Europe and all the way from Greenland in the west to Siberia in the east.
Vaccinium myrtillus was likely a part of the diet of Europeans already during the ice age...
I have no idea about when cultivation started though...
Thank you!
A lot of people may be saying blueberries originated in north america because north americans refer to vaccinium myrtillus as "bilberry" and not blueberry, while europeans refer to them as blueberries.
@@steffeeH true, for us European, myrtillus is the true blueberry. In french, we call it myrtille, since ages... the american species is so different.
Luredreier We still do not know how to cultivate the european blueberry
You can move plants but they rarely like it. They grow slow and ungilding/ very little berries..
Blueberrys is the most common plant in Sweden, it covers 17% of the total landmass ;)
We are so fortunate to have have thousand of years of fruit cultivation in our grocery stores and backyards.
Do livestock and Fertile Crescent!
Also, I'm fascinated by the evolution of many foods from wild ancestors to calorie producing beasts.
AtlasPro have a great video about livestock! Go check that out!
Never realized the amount of fruits and vegetables that come from Asia. I'm surprised only like 2-3 came from Africa.
Yeah! They always taught me bananas came from Africa, for example. Many things school taught us were incorrect.
To be fair, i dont think there is a lot of documentation of fruits and vegetables in Africa, because theres a lot of fruits and vegetables that are distinct from similar foods elsewhere as well as a lot of food being ingrained in many african cultures as their own food
thats just this video. certain people tend to overlook Africa... blog.farmcrowdy.com/african-fruits-and-crops/ a simple google search could
@Dixie Pride South Wide ! ignorant
@Dixie Pride South Wide ! but they aren't... Many people in Africa live in cities... Many of which are some of the fastest growing economies..
"Watermelons originated in West Africa"
*Oh boy...*
Beans originated in Mexico 🤷🏻♂️
Lmao 😂😂 i see what u did there
HOLUP
*Hmmm...*
*Smacks lip*
I get your joke regarding the vampires, but we love garlic in Transylvania!
#Erdély
@@Perririri u forgot an i, u can see...
@@mihneaeusebiu do you mean Erdélyi? That is the possessive form , meaning Transylvanian
*Peaches being cultivated in ancient China*
*Romans* “Ahh! The Persian apple!”
*Ancient China* ”Am I a joke to you ”
Romans "I can't verify if you exist"
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Reaction quote
Comedy genius
Well parts of China were a part of the Persian empire
Iranian People lived in West of China in Ancient time
Just like those Arabic numerals from India.
For those who love both History and food I recommend a book called A Mediterranean Feast. It is both a great cookbook and a fantastic History book.
the world needs more videos like this, very interesting and informative... thank you
Interesting o yes! it would be interesting to find out how celery
came about...
Yes. Pineapple Pizza lovers, just after gamers, are the most oppressed race.
When will this persecution stop we went to war for Jews but when gamers are persecuted even worse no one lofts a finger to help us god is not a good god
I'm allergic
Cabage, cauliflower, brocoli, and brussles sprouts are all the same plant species, just bred to favor growth into different shapes.
This was awesome! I’d love to see a video like this but with the origin of beers, wines, and spirits.
Why didn't this comment get more likes?!
This is the greatest episode you have ever done!
Those of us who enjoy pineapple on pizza are persecuted for our beliefs LMAO
>:(
The wages of sin is death!
And rightly so, I might add
Pineapple is so yummy in pizza. Also I have heard Swedes like banana on their pizza. Start hatin on them instead.
And very well deserved, its fucking disgusting.
We in New Zealand have not referred to Kiwi Fruit as Chinese Gooseberry's for probably 30years. No one calls them that anymore. Kiwi fruit has well and truly evolved as their name.
Same in Australia.
I’ll goose you’re berries
The Colombian Exchange, That's a nice way of putting it.
Wow these videos are high quality and on interesting topic! Thx for posting
I gave you a LIKE simply for all that research you had to do to make this video. Good job!!!
Actually cantaloupe is the name of a town near Rome -Cantalupo where the melon was a speciality.
First 30 seconds and I'm already salivating over apricots. I need to go back to Armenia!
Apricots and Africa have something in common: Their names both derive from the Latin adjective ''apricus'', which means ''sunny''.
Have fun in sunny Armenia (after the covid craze is over) and don't forget to send me some lovely wine! XD
Thank you Fire of Learning, I think that is about as much information that can be presented in 11 minutes
Brilliant video! Absolutely fascinating
The macadamia nut is the only fruit/nut native to the Australian continent that has been cultivated widely throughout the world -apart from it there is virtually no other but I think a few others deserve to be grown like the quandong and the finger lime.
Northern Europeans: dont eat tomatoes they’re night shade
Also Northern Europeans: have a population that is entirely dependent on the potato
I've heard that people got sick when they ate tomato from lead plates (the acidic juices of the tomato bounded with the lead and was ingested).
Neither the tomato nor the potato spread _quickly_ to northern cuisine.
In case of the potato, it took well into the 1700s until the potato became a staple food for most of the population of Northern Europe. The dependence on the potato is much younger than people often expect.
The rise of the tomato in Northern Europe came a bit later but at a roughly similar time.
Also, the fears about being a night shade plant were not entirely unreasonable. The green parts of both the potato and the tomato are mildly toxic.
The hell they do eat tomatoes i see them all the time
@@mestizounsolo5545 He meant when Europeans thought they were poisonous
At the time they thought potatoes were toxic, too. Understanable, because most parts of both the potato and the tomate actually are toxic.
Fantasic! An archive of this knowledge explained well... Sharing..
Beautiful info thank you!
I am constantly harassed by my friends because I enjoy pineapple on my pizza. I'm glad you are part of us.
They run me out of town because I like pineapples and anchovy on my pizza.
You have lost the control over your life xD
sorted sortof
So you are the one.
Heathen's! Persecute, Kill the heretics!
The second most oppressed race just behind gamers.
In my dialect (southern Italy) cherries are called "cirasu", it's strikingly similar to the town where they've got the name, Kerasus
cherries are also called cerese in Venetian and cerezas in Spanish
And 'Kersen' in Dutch, though we call the orange: China's apple, 'Sinaasappel'.
In Spanish we call them cerezas
@@armando1611 português: cereja
In Turkish we call it "kiraz" and the town is called Giresun.
Great Channel, new sub. Love the history of food
Awesome Channel! Thank you so much 😊
Interesting video. Most people do not know that head cabbage, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, and brussel sprouts were all developed from the wild cabbage plant.
And others as well, e.g. rape seed.
Wow in Sanskrit orange is called nārańga and in Spanish we call it “naranja”
Actually it is Muslims that introduced oranges to Iberian peninsula 😊
Y'all just like stealing credit. India had a oral tradition to pass down knowledge. U guys came to our land and spread our knowledge to whole world taking credit for everything. There's a reason why ur number system is called hindu Arabic number system
Wow this was extremely informative.
Thanks for sharing
my national ego is hurt by you not mentioning that orange carrots originated from the Netherlands, but great vid nonetheless
Its more the type of climate in your Region and constitution of soil that determined that orange carrots originated or?
I thought they made orange carrots for the royal family, the House of Orange, after which it became the standard carrot
@@amzilla correct, though the House of Orange wasn't the royal family back then. They were the stadhouders, which meant that they had control over the army, not so much over state matters, those were left to the individual provinces and the States-General.
@Russell Bell Yeah, if ya ain't Dutch ya ain't much and you always tell a Dutchman, but you can't tell him much.
That feeling when you used to think potatoes were native to Ireland
I thought the same thing...
HOW's y'alls woke AZZ now!! 😾😆
NO really, how are you all today? 😁🐈
I'd been knowing that when in the movie about elizabeth I, she is brought a raw potato to eat from the new world
Max: Stop joking and talking nonsense! Potatoes were unknown to the entire world until about 500 years ago after the discovery of the New World specifically from the natives of the Peru region.
@@roberttelarket4934 unknown to the entire world except the Peruvians.
Thank you for the learning
I searched for this! Great content
Tomatoes did not originate in South America but in what is now Guatemala and the Mexican state of Chiapas (which borders Guatemala). The same goes for Cocoa beans that are used for chocolate and corn which originated in the whole Mesoamerican region.
As far as the rest is concerned, you are right.
Yes. Se comprobó que sí.
delicious and you can really tell they're from there
This is a nice video, thanks!
Nice, great topic
1:11
Eh, regarding blueberries...
There's a difference between vaccinium corymbosum and vaccinium myrtillus...
Yes, vaccinium corymbosum is native to North America only, however vaccinium myrtillus is common in Europe and all the way from Greenland in the west to Siberia in the east.
I am amazed where all these fruits originated and how were exported in the ancient times.
Persians and berbers and Romans and egyptians
Epic video! Never been a huge priority, but have ALWAYS wanted to know. Bonus, one video for so many. Just fantastic, Justin. Thanks for doing the research.
Wow! How Amazing!
No one calls Kiwis Chinese Gooseberry in Australia or New Zealand
2:52
Yep. Lived in Australia all my life. Only ever heard them called Kiwi fruit.
Sounds like a mouthful anyways. Why not call them kiwi?
@k1w1 🤯
They were called Chinese Gooseberrys when they first started showing up in the 70's
I'm never calling kiwis "chinese gooseberry". nice try chariman mao
I live in Australia, and we call it "kiwi fruit"
Well done. Very interesting
pretty cool video :D interesting stuff.
I live in Transilvania and we cultivate and eat tons of garlic!
Well then we'll try sunlight. 😸
He meant to say vampires in Transylvania.
He was making a vampire joke, since Transylvania is associated in pop culture with vampires because of Bram Stoker's Dracula novel.
I apologize on his behalf if you’re offended 😅
Yeah no problem. But I think lot of people didnt get that it was a joke.
Ok I have to clear something up. In New Zealand we don't call the kiwifruit "Chinese Gooseberry". NOBODY does. They are 2 differant things. A Chinese gooseberry is a mid size green berry. A Kiwifruit is ENTIRELY different. Otherwise this is pretty on point with everything else.
5:50 what a brilliant joke 😆😆😆 and the dramatic piano picks up and everything
"Brilliant joke", really? Meh, was just low hanging fruit. A'ight, I'll get my coat.
Great video 👍🏻
Omg please do atleast beans I've been trying to learn the different types of beans for a while and a video like this would be perfect
Mexico, plus I know about 5 types of beans, the most nutritious are black beans, the ones I'm used to are pinto beans, source: I'm mexican
@@JosueLopez-kk9us mayocoba beans are better, now they call them peruvian beans... dont know why, but back when i was young they used to be called mayocoba beans :)
Wild Onions can be found both in North America and Asia. They are far more smaller than what we have today, but pack a punch.
In the video he said they were extinct...
@@cube2foxHe's talking about the *specific* species of onion that gave rise to the domesticated onion
Amazing.
It would be really interesting if you made a video comparing cultivated fruits to their wild counterparts!
Pretty good, but figured with the role of Wheat in civilization you might have mentioned it and other grains...you did mention corn with is more of a grain than a vegetable.
2 years late, but just popping in to say that corn is, in fact, considered a whole grain
@@Melchizedeki there are two maizes: maize proper which is a grain, but sweet corn doesn't dry into a grain and so is considered a vegetable. Interestingly, there are no good definitions of fruit and vegetable as there are exceptions to every one.
yes please do beans. beans are the actual super food! the work to nutrients ratio is insane.
I think soybeans originated from the Manchuria/Korean peninsula
Most common beans are native to the Americas, but Fava beans are from the Levant
Amazing
Very interesting!
I am posting this from Transylvania, where I had garlic barbecue for lunch today. You never know...
But you did not mention you used Factor 50 sunblockers.
In Australia, kiwi fruit are called kiwi fruit.
You forget some. What about... Artichoke? Asparagus? Beans? Beets? Celery? Red/Green Chili? Coconut? Green bean? Guava? Honeydew melon? Lychee? Nectarine? Papaya? Passionfruit? Red/Green Peppers? Pomegranate? Olives? Squash? Zucchini?
Thank you for this. Two notes, it is a very long time since anybody in Australia or New Zealand refered to Kiwi fruit as Chinese gooseberry and the spread of sweet potato through the pacific island cultures most likely came directly from the Americas via the long range sailing vessels these people used.
As an Australian I have never heard of a kiwi fruit bing called anything other than a kiwi fruit. I don’t know a single person who would know what a Chinese gooseberry is.
How happens same fruit grew in different continents before the discovery of America? Parallel origins or were brought as supplies from the first people to get America?
Probably they can trace a common ancestor to pangea times
Birds daaaah
I thoroughly enjoy that 'PINOCCHIO' piano music playing in the background of this video...
Is it a Jim Brickman composition of sorts?
My favourite is the strawberry guava, psidium cattleianum, which is a little bitter on the tree but makes the most unusual and delicious jelly that goes wonderfully with meat or on toast. I could just eat it on it's own.
We have blueberries in Europe too, in fact I'm pretty sure they exist natively in the entire northern hemisphere
European Blueberries or Bilberrues are actually a different species in the same genus. The commercially produced ones you buy in the store are north American blueberries though of course they are grown in other parts of the world as well now. Bilberrues are edible but much more difficult to grow and transport so they've never really been cultivated to the same extent.
Yes, the wild blueberries and strawberries, that you can find all over European forests, are native species. And they're much tastier than their bigger, often industrially grown relatives.
There's a type of domesticated strawberry, though, that resembles the forest strawberry in taste more closely. It's called Mieze Nova and can be kept in a flower pot. The strawberries are a little bit smaller than those of the usual garden variant, but much bigger than that of the wild strawberry.
"Cucumbers were introduced to the Ancient Greeks..."
To #Lesvos! 😜
There are more fruits native to North America than most think. The Concord grape is one. There are several plums and a persimmon. The pawpaw is a wonderful fruit that because of its short shelf life is not marketed much. Many traditional varieties are not as commonly used today as 50 years ago. Many things commonly known to Latin and South America might have cultivated farther north but not written down.
There are quite a number of relatively common fruits that didn't receive mention here.
Quince, Gooseberry, currants, pomegranate, elderberry, persimmon, jujube, pepino, tomatillo, guava, durian (My nose understands why this was not mentioned), mamey, longan or rambutan, cherimoya, sapote, papaw, passion fruit and did I miss cassava, yuca, malanga, beets, cucumbers and squash/pumpkins. I suppose fennel and celery could also be classed as herbs. There are also numerous leafy green vegetables aside from the mentioned spinach and lettuce.
as an Australian i have never heard kiwi fruit as Chinese goose berry
It's possibly just New Zealand, I believe I read, ambiguously, "Oceania"
@@Fireoflearning nope, not New Zealand either.
@@rabudman What are they called there?
Fire Of Learning here in New Zealand we just call them Kiwifruit because kiwi is a historical reference to New Zealanders
Top Kek, depends how old you are, they were called Chinese gooseberry's till about the 80's.
If you upload one more video that isn’t titled “French History part 2” I will be having a stern call with the CEO of youtube
Lol Im gonna guess and say it'll be up in early to mid December
Fire Of Learning Ok I’m trusting you lol
There is a European blueberry too, it is smaller but taste more and grow wild over most of Scandinavia. I don't think you see it often outside North Europe though since the smaller berries means you earn less money growing it. On the plus side do we have so much that tens of thousands of people pick the wild every year.
It might be that it is tastier since you pick them fresh in general instead of growing them in large greenhouses, but health nuts love them since they have more antioxidants.
Also: I think you should have mentioned coffee. And yeah, coffee is a berry.
Interesting video
Do the origins/native areas of beer, wine, and spirits.
Europe, Europe, Europe.
@@AdmiralBonetoPick wrong
Could you do one on fruits and veg specifically from Africa please. I find it hard to believe that the only foods from Africa we eat are lettuce, leeks, watermelon and possibly eggplant. Would be interested to know if theres any more.
Lentils and beer from Egypt I think.
He just mentioned the most wordspread, there is a lot more but they are more of a local cousine
Okra! ❤
You may consider doing the history of the development of fruits and vegetables. I know many of them were nothing like they naturally began.
Great video, thanks for posting!!!
Being a farmer you'd think I knew all of this lol. Knowledge is power.
no shout-out to testicles for inspiration for the word avocado?!
Cranberries and blueberries from America? Yeah right. I just wonder when they were spred to northern Europe because all the woods are full of them. And have been for centuries.
Yep, i live in sweden and the forests around here are filled with blueberries and cranberries. And our blueberries are purple on the inside and have a much more flavour than north american blueberries.
After watching I kind of just got this thought in my head... What about lingonberries and cloudberries? They are delicous!!
It's interesting that you talked about the earliest recording dates but all the pictures you showed were of the final versions, many looked nothing like what we see today when they were first started to be eaten.
A bit difficult to find a photo of a 5000 year old apple.
Persimmons, artichokes, kumquats, the list is endless.
Blueberry grows in Eurasia and it is a different species to north American blue berry (and better tasting). Also chilies and bell peppers are not different species. Chilies are original species and bell peppers are just chilies that have been created with no burn and more sweetness. Otherwise a good vid.
Hi Justin, I was wondering which program you use to make your video's?
Windows Movie Maker for the video, Audacity for the audio
I actually didn't know any of this before now
We have blueberry in European forest since immemorial time, 12" tall so I think they existed since Gondwana time, to be in North America as well.
Same with cranberries.
Those are bilberries, also called European blueberries, not the same species
Bilberry, or European blueberries are different than the American fruit
@@hmpz36911 According to who ? I ate both of them they taste the same except European are purple/red inside ,have more intense flavor and the bush is much smaller.Those stupid "scientist" make the world more complicated than it really is. Down with those idiots. Would you like to have red cherry and white cherry a different SPECIES ?
@@marsukarhu9477 Right on.
Your Spanish pronunciation on a couple of these really made me laugh. Pitaya and aguacate had me going.
>Watermelon
It all adds up now
i can t tell you how much i wanted to know this.
Central Africa: am I a joke to you?
What the hell did West Europeans have to eat before the middle ages?
Grain and meat.
@@liamsmith331 you can't eat meat often without factory farming. But yes interesting question. Probably things we don't eat anymore
@@tillhansen454 I was mostly kidding. You're mostly right though. Meat was a sign of wealth and a luxury. For peasants most of the protein would come from things like peas and broad beans. Peas porridge was a staple in western europe. Legumes and grains made up the vast majority of most peoples diets for most of human history (in agricultural societies)
@@liamsmith331 I heard about millet, buckwheat or skirret being basic foods in different areas
@@liamsmith331And cabbage
Yum
Cool