7 Intriguing Genetically Modified Fruits & Veggies

1. Kalel
   March 10th, 2009 at 11:14 am

   A lot of black-and-white monster movies start like this.

2. meg
   March 10th, 2009 at 11:21 am

   The grapple one isn't true... grapples are just apples soaked in grape flavoring. Are all of these fake?

3. Jen Diggity
   March 10th, 2009 at 11:22 am

   Grapples are not a weird hybrid of grapes and apples, as the article states, but apples that have been soaked in grape flavoring. It says so right on the Grapple website: http://www.grapplefruits.com/process.html
   I thought apples were pretty perfect to begin with, but apparently not.

4. Neasayer
   March 10th, 2009 at 11:25 am

   I love environmentalists with no idea about what they are talking about. Grapples are just apples injected with grape juice, says so right on the package. The lemon tomato, really just a tomato hybrid with lemon BASIL genes.

5. Humo
   March 10th, 2009 at 11:59 am

   Sorry, but this is completely ridiculous.

   Ok, the Grapple case is already debunked.

   Colourful carrots is normal, orange carrots are only the ones produced and sold in industrial scale (a bit like yellow maize, vs the white, blue, red...).
   Plum and Apricots are related, so the Pluot is not a weird feat. It isn't even a GMO, just a hybrid.
   The Tangelo case is even worse: Citrus easily hybridize between each others, even in wilderness. The Tangelo is just a commercially interesting hybrid. Even the Grapefruit is a hybrid.

6. Johnny Cat
   March 10th, 2009 at 12:55 pm

   I saw Grapples in the store once, and my only thought was, Why?

7. bethnull
   March 10th, 2009 at 1:50 pm

   This article is total bollocks.

   The references on the giant raisin and grapple both link to a page that is full of obvious jokes.

   Humo's got it right on carrots, pluots and tangelos. On top of that,the GMO carrots mentioned are modified to increase calcium, not change colour.

   The lemon tomato is not called a lemato, does not look like the picture (duh), has basil, not lemon genes as mentioned above, and apparently smells/tastes of "perfume, rose, geranium and lemongrass", not lemons.

   The insulin lettuce one seems about the only legit thing on the whole page.

   Normally I'd just sigh and ignore an article like this, but I am feeling decidedly intolerant of poor science reporting this morning.

8. caitlin13
   March 10th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

   It looks a little like something that would offend the innocent eyes of the all-too-touchy people who tend to comment here.

9. Evilbeagle
   March 10th, 2009 at 2:32 pm

   Why create strange hybrids? Are we all so bored with our food that we have to play with it? It's not offensive to me, just... pointless.

10. JM
    March 10th, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    I met y wife through the agricultural miracle called pluots! Flavour Grenades, to be exact.

11. Dema9o9ue
    March 10th, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    What a bunch of bullshit.

12. don't
    March 10th, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    Is that website trying to be serious? People have already taken it apart. All I wanted to touch on is that I've sniffed a pack of grapples and they smell really strongly like grape soda, nasty. They must sell, because they've been around for years but it can't be to convince a kid to eat fruit because even if they do taste like actual grapes--GRAPES ARE FRUIT TOO. I just don't understand.

13. sadtomato
    March 10th, 2009 at 8:22 pm

    "pluots are heavily fortified with vitamin C and have no sodium or cholesterol."

    DUH! Cholesterol is only found in animal products.

14. Ryan_SC
    March 10th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

    "DUH! Cholesterol is only found in animal products."

    Who cares about that, do they have any Trans Fats?

15. DianaK
    March 10th, 2009 at 11:06 pm

    The lemato is from the website http://www.worth1000.com which is a well known photoshop contest website. I contacted the original creator of the image so he could see what they did with his image.

    That article is a load of bunk.

16. fel9
    March 11th, 2009 at 10:32 am

    The tangelo is actually a cross between a tangerine and a pummelo, not and orange and a grapefruit...

17. qarla
    March 11th, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    The photo of the fruit at the left looks like.....

18. Whoelse
    March 16th, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    why do people waste time making sites like this, they obviously don't know jack, the lemato looks like its just a lemon with a wax skin or something, and to make raisins that big wouldn't you need giant grapes and a lot of time to dehydrate them or what ever you do to get raisins? if so whats the point of making them into raisins? the guy (people) who wrote this dont know jack

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