Huh, who would have thought? It's a bit ironic that we like to put ketchup on fries then huh?
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From the post:
>Meet the potato's unexpected ancestor: the tomato.
That's right, a fruit. Potatoes and tomatoes don't look alike, smell alike or taste alike, but in a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists said that the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor around 9 million years ago.
"We've finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from," corresponding author Sanwen Huang of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences said in a news release.
Huh, who would have thought? It's a bit ironic that we like to put ketchup on fries then huh?
Archive: https://archive.today/bEFnd
From the post:
>>Meet the potato's unexpected ancestor: the tomato.
That's right, a fruit. Potatoes and tomatoes don't look alike, smell alike or taste alike, but in a study published Thursday in the journal Cell, scientists said that the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor around 9 million years ago.
"We've finally solved the mystery of where potatoes came from," corresponding author Sanwen Huang of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences said in a news release.