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What other things do we eat before they're ripe? Anything besides olives?
Lots of things we harvest before they're done developing as they ordinarily would.
Plenty of herbs and vegetables get fibrous and unpleasant (or even impractical) to eat if we let them grow too long.
Pea varieties with edible pods (snow peas, snap peas) can continue to grow until their pods are no longer edible, while the internal seed can continue to develop and would need to be separated out like regular peas out of the pod.
Okra has a finite window where the actual fruit is edible. If you let it grow too long, it becomes hard and dry and gross, and then you'll just have to save the dessicated seeds for planting next season.
Cucumbers are also harvested early, before they become a yellow fibrous gourd. I've had to look up recipes for what to do with these when my lazy ass actually let this happen in my garden, and went with some kind of Chinese pork and cucumber soup.
Baby corn is just regular corn harvested really early. It's not actually a different species/cultivar.
Even sweet corn we harvest early while the kernels are still plump with water. Most other corn varieties we grow to where they get pretty dried out to be processed into cornmeal and other products.
Agriculture is really interesting. Timing the harvest is an important part of actually optimizing the product for specific purposes.
"Regular" peas are are still harvested immature only at a later development stage. Fully mature peas are very hard like a dry bean.
Sweet corn contains gene mutations that reduces the sugar to starch conversion in the kernal. So the sugar builds up in the kernal instead. The varieties are classified by the gene or combinations of genes they contain (su, se, or sh2). When the seed is fully mature and dry the seed looks like a raisin because of the lack of starch
Unripe orange? Yeah. That's a lemon.
Unripe lemon? Yeah. That's actually an orange.
Hopefully you believe me. I want to discover a paradox before I die.
*shoots dogs0n*
shame, really.
The tunnel is white, which means I was right.
I look down on tetris11 from god's chamber and thank them for ending my life while at my peak (discoverer of paradoxes, master of words, intellectual).
He's writing his PhD thesis in heaven now.
Jalapenos ripen red. A chipotle pepper is just a jalapeno that has been allowed to ripen, and is then smoked.
There's a useful guide that shows a variety of peppers under their "normal" name and then their "smoked" name:
Green onions are the first thing I thought of: just regular onions picked earlier.
no
Wait… does the green refer to that it’s unripe or the color?
Yes