Evidence suggests that a diet high in vegetables may confer significant health advantages. Vegetables contain a wide range of phytochemicals that can provide a wide range of different health effects and consuming these chemicals is a proven strategy to improve health. However, many of the vegetables that humans consume are not naturally found in nature but are the result of breeding by growers. Broccoli for example is a hybrid plant that originated from the wild cabbage plant. In turn, the cabbages that we see in green grocers and supermarkets are not the same as the cabbages that grow wild in nature and from where the commercial cabbages derive. In general, wild vegetables are smaller, contain less energy, and are higher in fibre than commercially available cultivars. This is because over time the commercial growers have cultivated the farmed vegetables to pander to the taste of consumers, and this is something that has also occurred in fruits, which tend to be cultivated for sweetness and taste.
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