This Is How Our Favourite Foods Look In Their Natural Habitats (Photos)

Could you recognize a cashew tree in the wild, or a black pepper vine? How about a mango tree?

We all know what an apple tree looks like, and can recognize a cabbage patch when we see one, but many of our favorite foods appear vastly different in their natural forms, as they go through a remarkable transformation to get from field to table.
The below photo series features some of our favorite foods as they appear in nature. You might be surprised to see the startling beauty of the saffron flower, or the sheer size of a cacao bean, and this unfamiliarity stands as testament, I think, to how far removed we have become from the natural world and from food production. Many of us would probably walk right on by some of these plants without realizing that food was near — an ignorance which could prove to detrimental in a survival setting. And in the same way that cows have become ‘beef’ and pigs have become ‘pork,’ most fruits and spices have been divorced from their true forms, and with that separation comes a kind of collective amnesia; we forget that each strand of saffron must be carefully parted from its blossom, or every pistachio prized from its pod.  And we wonder why some of these items are so expensive!
Let the below images show you just how miraculous nature is and serve as a reminder that every piece of food you enjoy is a gift of the earth — and the product of hard work! Enjoy!

Almonds

Almonds
flickr.com 

Bananas

Bananas

asergeev.com 

Black Pepper

Black Pepper
pixgood.com

Brussels Sprouts

Brussels Sprouts

flickr.com 

Cacao Cacao

eco-turizm.net
Cacao2
airshipflamel.com 

Cashews

Cashew
reddit.com 

Cinnamon

Cinnamon
cchorita.blogspot.ru 

Coffee

Coffee

wikipedia.org
Coffee2
inforegion.pe 

Kiwi

Kiwi
organiceconomist.blogspot.ru
Kiwi2
 organiceconomist.blogspot.ru

Mango

Mango
 ecocircuitospanama.wordpress.com

Peanuts

Peanutsimgur.com
Peanuts2
flickr.com 

Pineapple

Pineapplevulgarfractions.wordpress.com

Pistachios

Pistachios
 geolocation.ws

Saffron

Saffron
pixshark.com
Saffron
sfw.so 

Sesame

seasame

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Vanilla

Vanilla
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Vanilla
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