Everyday Foods Before They're Harvested

Cashews

People all across the world love cashews because they are crispy, tasty, and can be used in many ways. People use them in soups, salads, curries, and desserts. They are simple to spot because of their shape, but they are not easy to find in the wild. This is because they grow on a strange tree and have a strange relationship with a cashew apple. The beautiful yellow cashew apple is above the immature cashew. When the apple is ready to eat, it will fall to the ground.

The cashew will be ready after the apple has been taken off. You can also eat cashew apples, but they aren't a common fruit choice.

Vanilla Bean

When asked what their favorite smell is, most people think of vanilla right away. People often use vanilla beans when they bake or make drinks. Some people even like it as a flavor for their coffee or tea. We can easily tell what the smell is, but it's harder to discover vanilla beans in the wild. The stalks of beautiful white vanilla blooms mature into vanilla bean pods. The vanilla bean pod is easier to notice as they come out.

The pods are opened when the vanilla is ready to be picked. You may scrape off thousands of tiny vanilla beans from each pod with a knife.

Coffee Beans

Coffee beans grow in big, colorful clusters that seem like something out of a Roald Dahl tale. They don't even look like the coffee beans we love so much while they're developing. Instead, they look like cherries that have been painted yellow, pink, or red. They taste bad when they are growing. They already have a lot of caffeine in them, but they need to age before they taste good.

They are roasted once they are picked. The coffee bean only tastes and smells good once it has been roasted.

Kidney Beans

Because they are full of fiber, protein, minerals, and vitamins, these beans are called "superfoods." They can be used in many ways and canned. Most individuals can tell what a kidney bean is right away. But when kids are growing, it's a different story. A pod that looks more like a pea pod than a pod for kidney beans covers these beans. When the pod is fully grown, it cracks open, showing off the red kidney beans we all know and love.

It takes kidney beans 100 to 140 days to grow big enough to be picked. It's best to leave them alone until the pod opens because they won't be ready yet.

Capers

You either love or dislike capers because they have a strong flavor. At least these small flavorings go a long way. It could be hard for caper aficionados to find them while they are growing because they look like they are just part of the caper flower. Instead, each blossom has a lot of capers that can be harvested and subsequently pickled. The flowers are really lovely, and the capers are on the ends of the lilac stalks.

You have to cure capers before you can eat them. They are pickled with vinegar and salt. They taste pretty bad if you eat them before they have been treated.

Wasabi

People who have eaten wasabi without knowing what it was know that the paste may be very strong. People who want wasabi with their sushi can find it at their favorite sushi restaurant, but it will be harder to find in a garden. That's because wasabi starts off as little leaves that are then made into a paste. Wasabi is quite hard to grow, therefore many of the types of wasabi we see in stores might not be real.

Wasabi is good for your health in numerous ways, such as for your gut and heart, as an antibiotic and anti-inflammatory, and for managing allergies.