Food Facts: It is said that civilization is a common heritage. Traveling is an attribute of civilization and culture. There are many food items that the world has received from India and India has also received from the world. Humans themselves originated from Africa about 70,000 years ago, when they were called primitive humans. They used to light fire with stones, do jhum cultivation and eat tuberous fruits. Since the mention of fruits has already started, let’s take a look at the history of fruits, which fruit came from where and with whom…
Babar had brought all these fruits –
Famous historian and geographer Sohail Hashmi says that apple and pomegranate are not Indian fruits. Even today, pomegranate sellers in Arab countries call out, ‘Pomegranates of Kandahar’. Grapes are sold under the name ‘Chaman’, and both these places are in Pakistan. Babar had brought these two fruits. He brought plums and apricots with him. Muskmelon and watermelon were also introduced by Babar.
Some people call fog as custard apple and some people call custard apple as custard apple. Well, it is a different matter that Sitaji never ate these two fruits, because both the fruits are foreign.
Fruits which are indigenous:
Mango is completely Indian. Although mangoes are cultivated in many other countries too, the variety of mangoes found in Indian soil is nowhere else in the world. Sugarcane is the fruit of India. Sugarcane was taken to Central Asia and Mauritius, Fiji by the Arabs and the sugarcane cultivators were taken along with them. That’s why there you will see so many people speaking Bhojpuri, Hindi, Maithili.
Alexander the Great and Banana Connection
The first record of banana comes from the time of Alexander. Alexander told one of his men to note down any unique thing he sees in India. Sikandar was told that there is a strange kind of tree here which has only leaves and no wood at all…there are trees in rows. There are fruits in bunches and there are no seeds in the fruit.
Good production of banana can also be seen in Java and Sumatra. Kerala also has whole red bananas. In which each banana weighs up to one kilogram.
read this also – After all, where did ‘potato’, cauliflower, capsicum come from…you will definitely be shocked to hear this story of local vegetables.