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World’s Most Harvested Crops (2024) (www.visualcapitalist.com)
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[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 points 2 months ago

Surprised watermelons are above apples, is there some cuisine out there that uses them heavily, or am I overestimating the popularity of apples I wonder

[-] draco_aeneus@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago

This is by metric ton, so watermelon scores particularly high because they grow pretty big, and they're quite heavy (since they're mostly water). You need a lot less volume of apple to get the same nutrition and/or flavour effect.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Gallagher's fault.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago

Implying that sugar is the staple food for not quite half the world's population.

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