Have you ever thought about the origin of the ingredients on your plate? You may have often seen vanilla, pepper, and coffee in the kitchen. But everything must be in a finished state and ready to use.
Most of us have probably never seen the original form of the food ingredients we eat before they are processed and are still in the form of plants. Well, IDN Times can help you to know what the contents of your plate looked like when it was still on the tree.
1. Vanilla, which is used as a food fragrance, actually comes from a type of orchid.
2. Sesame seeds are harvested from the small fruits of this shrub.
3. This is how cinnamon looks like before being used as a cooking powder.
4. It turns out that coffee comes from these cute fruits that don’t look black at all!
5. Kiwi fruit actually grows on vines, not trees!
6. This is not a weed pest, but asparagus!
7. The pepper in your bottle used to be in the form of a bunch of these cute little fruits.
8. Hazelnuts that are often used to flavor food by mothers are shaped like this cute fruit!
9. Don’t imagine the chocolate fruit looks like a chocolate bar, yes, but like a rugby ball!
10. It turns out that almond plants are very beautiful, especially when they are just blooming.
11. “Sambal” wasabi is not made from a kind of chili, but from the grated roots of the wasabi plant.
12. Eucalyptus oil or gum comes from the leafy eucalyptus plant.
13. Before turning into powder or candy, nutmeg turned out to be a unique and interesting-looking fruit!
Those are some forms of food plants before they are harvested. How many have you seen the original form? Have you seen more or haven’t? It turns out that there are many unique and beautiful, yes, more like ornamental plants than food ingredients. If it looks beautiful like this, do you still have the heart to eat it?