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Oct 2023
49m 28s

Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit

Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley
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Botanically, bean pods are indeed fruits, and, honestly, they are also pretty magical. And we’re clearly not the only ones to think that: beans are the unsung hero of history. The fact that they were domesticated an astonishing seven different times in different places around the world shows how essential beans were to early humans, wherever they lived; in E ... Show More
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