Whether you love vegetables or hate them, they exist and you pretty much have to eat them. Sorry!
In the immortal words of Brian Wilson: "I'm gonna be round my vegetables, I'm gonna chow down my vegetables, I love you most of all... my favorite vegetable"
And he's right, too.
In this episode we get down in the dirt with our favorite veggies. Carrots... broccoli... and all the rest. All that, and Ceri tries out a fun new pun!
[Truth or Fail]
Sponge gourds
https://www.lewisginter.org/luffa-plant-exfoliate/
Grasspea
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6422318/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514116300629
https://www.cwrdiversity.org/the-curious-case-of-the-grasspea/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20510335/
https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/CropFactSheets/grasspea.html
Wild carrots
http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/wild.html
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/poison-hemlock-identification-and-control
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150177/
[Fact Off]
Spinach and growing organs
https://www.wpi.edu/news/wpi-team-grows-heart-tissue-spinach-leaves
Beet smell geosmin
[Ask the Science Couch]
Asparagus pee
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1379935/pdf/brjclinpharm00087-0116.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1715705/pdf/brmedj00052-0020.pdf
https://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/36/1/9/442551
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140818-mystery-of-asparagus-and-urine
https://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6071
https://www.livescience.com/57199-why-some-people-cant-smell-asparagus-pee.html
https://theconversation.com/that-distinctive-springtime-smell-asparagus-pee-94696
[Butt One More Thing]
Beeturia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537012/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319447#Beetroot-pigments