When is an Orange Not an Orange?
Navels, clementines, tangerines... What are the differences between these and more? Here's your orange citrus cheat sheet.
Potatoes
Follow America's favorite vegetable from field to factory — to see how potatoes grow and how they're turned into chips. PLUS: find out how eating green spuds might just possibly kill you!
Quick Bite: Why Does Asparagus Make Your Pee Smell?
So you've eaten a helping of asparagus, and soon afterwards, you're struck by a particularly odiferous bathroom visit. Asparagus pee — that smelly urine that strikes after eating asparagus — what's up with that? Well, you'd be surprised how much scientific research has tried to get to the bottom of this. Here's what they’ve discovered.
Mushrooms
Mushrooms have suffered from a case of mistaken identity. Is it a plant, or even a vegetable? We find answers inside the underground houses where farmers grow this mysterious food.
Garlic
We peel back the layers of nature's most powerful superfood: from the quirks of garlic's modern cultivation to the weird ways it's been used throughout history.
Cranberries
Most of us have only ever eaten cranberries as juice or that jiggly sauce we extract from a can at holiday time. But long before they're processed into these foods, fresh cranberries take special work to grow and harvest. Go underwater and high overhead to learn all about this native American fruit.
Cauliflower
Find out how penguin poop and ladybugs are employed to grow five million heads of cauliflower each year at one of America's largest organic farms. Also, the labor-intensive trick farmers have to pull to keep our cauliflower white. Because if it's not white, we won't buy it.
Apples
One of the world’s most ubiquitous fruits might seem like a simple thing to grow. But inside the common apple is a secret — and it's been challenging apple growers since Ancient Greece.
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