Designer Foods - Loudoun County Public Schools

Designer Foods Steps to Creating Hybrid Foods http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011- 01/life-cycle-genetically-modified-seed

What do you get when? Pineberry bred form wild strawberries but taste like pineapple

Tangerine + Pummelo (grapefruit) Tangelo Tastes like a tangerine but

juicier Ugli fruit Hybrid of an orange, grapefruit and

tangerine Pluot Plum and Apricot

(more plum than apricot) Aprium More apricot than

plum Toma Bella Tomato and bell pepper

hybrid Toma Bella's have a sweet, tomato flavor with the crispy, crunchiness of bell pepper...even after it's cooked.

This hybrid fruit has an intense red color with a squatty-bell shape. Lemato lemon + tomato Tastes like a tomato

with a hint of lemon and rose Limequat Key lime and a

kumquat Broccolini broccoli hybrid Broccoflower

Higher in protein than both broccoli and cauliflower Orange Cauliflower

Mutation that occurred in Canada Contains 25 times the level of vitamin A as the white variety