Sunday, August 5, 2007

Broccoflower

A broccoflower (also known as romanesco broccoli) is a hybrid created by crossing cauliflower with the related broccoli. It has a very unusual appearance, being a bright yellow-green with spiky florets. It has the sweet characteristics of cauliflower with the slightly richer flavor of broccoli. Broccoflower tastes wonderful, but I'm curious to see if it has any negative side effects, since I'm assuming this stuff doesn't exist naturally.

I find it funny that there's been an influx of new hybrid ingredients. Grapple is another item that is showing up in grocery stores, but is gross. It's an apple that tastes like a grape, but done so with artificial flavors. It smells like a grape magic marker and tastes like such. Also, there's the mango nectarine. Outside texture is like a nectarine, but inside flesh is like a mango. I'm just waiting for the cross breeding of animals, which would be maybe unethical, probably not very unhealthy for you, and more than likely not very tasty...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

not really a hybrid, but more like a veggie nip & tuck
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2007/07/watermelon-has-.html

Anonymous said...

http://www.tokyomango.com/
tokyo_mango/2007/07/
watermelon-has-.html