Broccoli:Amazing Facts

Broccoli: Broccoli is a “man-made” food.

So human’s just engineered broccoli out of nowhere? Nope.Well, not exactly.Broccoli only came about after years and years of selective breeding between wild cabbage plants that started around the 6^th century BC.In fact, the word “broccoli” comes from the Italian for “the flowering crest of a cabbage”.

Broccoli was grown mainly in Italy since the Roman Empire until the 16th century when a royal marriage brought the vegetable to France.