The Grocery Store Leaves Out the Most Interesting Part
A cashew hangs beneath something that looks like a small pear. Vanilla grows on an orchid. And the peanuts in a snack bowl began with flowers that sent their developing fruit into the ground.
We know these ingredients by their finished forms: roasted, peeled, ground, bottled, or packed into a jar. The plants behind them can be much harder to recognize. Sometimes the surprise is where the food grows. Other times, it is the part of the plant we have been eating all along.
These 12 familiar foods have growing habits worth a second look. Some are hiding in pods, some are flower buds, and one is a piece of a tree. Each photo reveals a stage that rarely makes it onto the supermarket shelf.
Start with the cashew, whose most recognizable part looks as if it was attached in the wrong place.
