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Most people expect pigs to be pink and fat. We also expect our fruits to have certain colors and even certain shapes. However, many of foods we eat every day didn't actually like the way they do now for thousands of years!

Some Of Your Favorite Foods Used To Learn Very Different Including:

Pigs
Pigs are descended from wild boars, which are fast, aggressive, and have sharp tusks made for goring. Since the characteristics that make domestic pigs so useful—fast breeding and the ability to eat almost anything—aren't so useful when exhibited in wild populations, they tend to cause trouble. So, over 10,000 years ago, we began the process of transforming wild boar into modern domestic pigs, starting in both western Asia and China.

Carrots
The original wild carrot probably started out in Persia as a small white or purple multi-forked root, with a stronger and more bitter flavor than we would recognize today. Domestication took a number of centuries, but reached a familiar milestone in Holland.

Watermelon
The suspicion that the familiar juicy red watermelon we know and love has changed over the years, comes from a painting by 17th-century Renaissance artist, Giovanni Stanchi. In the painting—there appears to be a watermelon in the bottom right corner. But the inside is not the uniform red you might expect, but a segmented white with red swirls and prominent black seeds.

Peaches
The cultivation of the peach started in China at least 3,000 years ago, and every peach lover should be very grateful for that fact. If the Chinese hadn't started this project way back then, we simply wouldn't have peaches, at least not in any form that we would recognize. Peaches started out life as small, waxy skinned, cherry-like fruits with little flesh.

Sheep
Domestication began around 10,000 years ago, but it took several thousand years of selective breeding before wool production could be confidently added to their resume, alongside meat and milk production. Another effect of domestication is that modern sheep often have shorter limbs and larger heads, proportional to their bodies, than their forebears and wild independent cousins.

Corn
Corn has undergone a rather dramatic change since it was first cultivated 9,000 years ago. The plant that corn was domesticated from is still around, actually, and is called Teosinte grass. Bearing little resemblance to modern corn, Teosinte grass is almost inedible, with an extremely hard kernel that required repeated pounding with a rock to break and release its potato-like contents.

Our Food Has Really Changed A Lot!

Now that you know your favorite foods used to look very different, you may never look at them the same way again! Did you know how differently your food used to look?

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Article & Photo Source: Grunge